61- Plus One.

Inside the Autobot base, BB-8 beeped something to Ratchet.

"Incoming ground bridge request? From Mimban?" Arcee asked.

Ratchet immediately opened a ground bridge, but only Wheeljack came through it in vehicle form.

"Wheeljack? What happened? Where are the others?" She asked as he changed back to robot form.

"Having a swell time taking the long way home on Ultra Magnus's boat, I'm sure. Han included." Wheeljack simply answered, walking away.

"I wondered what was taking so long with those snacks." Luke said knowing about his disappearance.

"That's Han." Leia simply said.

"Did you secure the Predacon bone?" Ratchet asked.

"The, huh, beast hunt kinda imploded, doc." Wheeljack answered.

"Well I just got detected another Con location: right in middle of Savareen's desert lands." Anakin reported. "Since Prime's unit isn't back from Kessel…"

"BB-8, set a bridge for Anakin's coordinates. You, roll with me." Arcee said to Wheeljack.

"Not today. Alright?" Wheeljack objected.

Instead of argue, she smiled. "If you're alright sending me out there alone."

"Alone is how I prefer to roll."

"Wheeljack, you do not wanna make me abandon a complex equation to venture outside my comfort zone. Besides, I doubt R2, BB-8 and D-O can operate the ground bridge and the other base's systems by their own without difficulty. And the children are not available right now. And Skywalker has some things to do back at Coruscant. It will pass some time until Master Tano arrives to take his place here." Ratchet explained.

"Hard? That hard?" D-O asked to BB-8, who nodded him.

That made Wheeljack groan. "Fine."

The ground bridge appeared and the two Autobots passed through.

Savareen

"But in case you hadn't figured it out…" He said while the crossed the portal. "…I don't play well…with…others."

After the ground bridge closed, both Autobots saw that they were surrounded by Decepticon heavy soldiers and air heavy soldiers, alongside B3 Ultra battle droids and Ultra droidekas.

"Scrap." Arcee cursed as the Cons and droids aimed their weapons at them.

"Know what I love most about Decepticon troopers?" Wheeljack whispered to her.

"They're easily distracted. Something they have in common with battle droids." Arcee replied.

Wheeljack nodded and lowered his hand allowing Arcee to place her foot on it. Next, he threw her high in the air, which got all the troops' attention. So Wheeljack began firing at them soon they turned their attention back to him, but he already took down two behind him. As Arcee landed she blasted three Decepticons behind her, while she used one of the droidekas's shield to protect herself. Next, she saw more coming at her with their melee combat hammers ready advancing at her, so she simply disposed of them with kicks, punches and making the droids shot them by accident. Wheeljack smashed the last tank with both hands before charging at the remaining enemies, the Ultra battle droids. Despite of being more than him, the Wrecker managed to eliminate all of them with a good combination of martial arts and combat training. Finally, they eliminated the droidekas' shields easily with their laser shots while they moved, taking them down in only in less than a minute.

"You sure you aren't a Wrecker?" Wheeljack asked.

"You sure you don't play well with others?" Arcee asked too.

Meanwhile in the base, Ahsoka was already there, working on her things when suddenly she heard a speeder pulling up. She went to the window and saw her husband, Lux Bonteri, heading to the building, so she decided to clean up her face, the same as her lekku and montrals, in order to look her best for him. At the same time, the children were practicing lightsaber duel in pairs with BB-8 and D-O observing them: Sky with Leia and Luke with Aris. Even Ratchet saw them with some interest. They put their lightsabers in training mode and also, to make the challenge bigger, all were wearing training helmets, while three training droids floated around shooting training lasers. They were about to end a round when Sky's mother showed up.

"Exciting, exciting." D-O said amazed.

"Nice counter, honey." She congratulated.

"Hi mom." Sky saluted while he took off his helmet and gave her a hug. "What are you doing here?"

"Anakin has something to do back at Coruscant, so I'm taking it from here."

"Something similar why I'm here, because senator Amidala was requested by the queen alongside representative Binks."

"Dad!" Sky yelled as he went to hug him.

"I came here to thank her and Master Skywalker for the medical supplies they graciously offered to donate from military bases. By the way; Nyx Okami, the Martez sisters, Saw and Steela Gerrera sends you memories. All of them."

"You mean from the old times?" Ahsoka said a little red and curious.

Sky started to feel weird behavior from his parents, again.

"Friends, come. You may see this."

"What is it, D-O?" Leia asked.

"Fossil, fossil." The little droid responded as he and BB-8 looked at the laptop.

"It's a Predacon talon, in a museum. Scientists were totally stumped when they excavated it, so it's been in storage. Discovered very long ago, even very long before the beginning of the Old Republic Era." Aris rode.

The laptop showed an image of the Predacon bone.

"But we're fresh out of beast hunters." Luke pointed.

Ratchet groaned. "I didn't choose emergency as my vehicle form for laughs."

"I don't think we need an Autobot for this." Ahsoka started.

"Maybe we should all just wait for Optimus." Sky suggested.

"I thought I told you already, son. Before I became senator, I was trained as a soldier when your mother helped me and the Onderon rebels against the Separatists during the Clone Wars. Compared with that, this will be like a walk in the park." Lux reassured Sky.

"Hum, maybe you and I could retrieve the fossil by our own." Ahsoka supported.

"I'm not sure, mom, dad. Don't you remember when Airachnid and Grievous captured you? When I had to rescue you."

"That was because they caught us by surprise. It will not happen this time, trust me." His mother reassured. "Let's go, Lux."

Once they left, Sky looked at his friends, who only shrugged.

"Weird, weird." D-O.

"They're right, Sky. They will be fine." Aris reassured.

At the same time, on the Nemesis deck…

"Ah, you have performed well, my pet." Megatron congratulated stroking the Predacon's head, with the optic's bone in his other hand. "This will be a splendid contribution to the spawning of your Predacon brethren."

In that moment, Knock Out arrived.

"My liege, we've located another of Shockwave's Predacon energy signatures. Weak, but steady."

"Excellent. Knock Out, do not return empty-handed."

"Moi? Don't even know the meaning of the word."

"Isn't empty-handed two words?" Skywarp asked, returning with the other Seekers from their previous mission.

"You would know. Or did your missing armor turn up?"

"Watch it, Knock Out! If you mess with a Seeker, you mess with the entire fleet."

"Oh, is that supposed to be a threat, Slipstream?"

"Why you wheel-bound…"

"Starscream!" Megatron intervened. "You have failed me enough for one day, all of you. Assume the task of monitoring for Predacon energy signatures. At once!"

"Arg, that's a droid task!"

"Not excuses, Skywarp." Megatron clarified him face-to-face.

"Yes, my liege." Starscream nodded as he shove Knock Out out of the way.

"I'm sure you'll find the gig as invigorating as I did, Screamer." Knock Out joked, making Starscream growl.

"You should not go so far, Knock Out. You don't want your precious chassis to be ruined by…accident." Thundercracker whispered him threateningly showing him one of his claws.

"Shockwave has initiated the cloning process with the specimens gathered thus far. The Predacon currently among us will be but the first of a new way of beast machine super soldiers." Megatron proclaimed while he and Knock Out went back inside the ship, not aware that the Predacon heard everything with close attention, even intrigued.

"What are you lurking about for? This is all your fault, unruled beast. Get back to your kennel!" Skywarp complained kicking its tail.

As response, the Predacon swung its tail at them, but they managed to evade it in time. But the tail hit the communications array.

"You mindless brute! Look what at you've done!" Starscream yelled.

"I have a bad feeling about this." Thundercracker expressed while Slipstream put a hand on her head in annoyance.

The Predacon glared at them standing. Meanwhile, Arcee and Wheeljack continued their quest inside a cave.

"You're awfully quiet, Wheeljack." Arcee noticed.

"I've never been one for chit-chat." He replied.

"Why do you pretend? If you really wanted to roll alone, you would have hit the open road today, but you didn't. You called for a bridge back to base."

"Hey! Don't assume you know me!"

"I'm not assuming." She said, stepping in front of him. "Now, care to chit-chat about what happened out there?"

They had a long pause, until Arcee started to laugh.

Wheeljack looked at her confused. "What's so funny?"

"Nothing about you. Is just…now I understand the point of view of Cliffjumper."

Fondor

Meanwhile, both Ahsoka and Lux already had the Predacon fossil walking out of the museum at night.

"What do you know? piece of cake." Lux opined, carrying the box with the talon.

"Yeah, easier than facing an entire droid battalion." Ahsoka confirmed.

"No, really. This must be the easiest thing we have done in our lives. And to believe Sky was much worried about us, when it must be on the contrary."

"Yes. It seems incredible how much he looks to be growing up, and he is still very little."

"He has taken that from you." Lux said before he looked to the stars. "You know? It's hard to believe that many years has passed since the war ended. I know that is a thing of the past now, but that doesn't mean that it schemes me, everything that happened back then."

Ahsoka sighed. "Yeah, me too. It's incredible all that was happening back then without us knowing a thing of it: the control chips implanted inside all clone troopers, Order 66, Master Sifo-Dyas disappearance long before the war started, the Separatist's movement origin, the conspiracies of the senate… Everything manipulated and machined, by the dark lord of the Sith. Long ago before the battle of Naboo. Even that was planned by Palpatine."

"He had everything settled from the beginning. Who knows what more terrible things he could have done if he had reached his goal. But you're not talking about only that, right? The attack to the Jedi temple and its plot." Lux asked to Ahsoka, having an idea of what she may be thinking.

"Yes. My time out of the Jedi Order was short, but hard. I felt myself like…far away from home, the only life that I knew. If it wasn't for the Autobots, I don't know what would have been of me." Ahsoka said in a sad tone.

"But it wasn't that way: you helped Mandalore on its darkest hour alongside Cliffjumper, and returned. Is true we have lived many bad things back then, but also brought us good things in the end: well, that's how we met each other. And now look at us: we're living an easier life, with a precious son who has one of those Autobots alongside him. You're a Jedi master at last, and the galaxy is a better place. Even the lower classes live now better." He said trying to cheer her up.

"Yeah. We have constructed our lives quiet well. Quiet a great history for future generations to remember. And who knows? Maybe a legend for the future."

"You can be sure of that. Besides, even if that happened in the end, the fact that you weren't on the Jedi Order anymore doesn't mean that you're not a Jedi." Lux confessed, making his wife to look at him surprised and grateful for that revelation. "Trust me, I know that for certain."

"Thank you, Lux. That means a lot for me." Ahsoka said kissing him on his cheek and giving him a warm hug. "Even if I would have left the order back then, I would have continued following the Jedi way anyway, and teaching everything that I know to Sky. Who knows? I could have become a true master by my own without even knowing it."

Lux laughed. "I still remember why you decided to call our son Sky. Which was? Because in honor of your master or the nickname you put him?"

Ahsoka laughed at that. "What can I say? I will never forget Anakin's face when I told him that. We almost got tired of laughing."

The couple laughed at that last detail.

"What about if after we end this we go to a proper place? You know, to remember old times properly." Lux proposed to his wife.

"That sounds great, dear." She said comforted and excited.

Then a pair of lights signaled them a speeder approaching them.

"Sorry to interrupt your little night, but I have a bone to pick with both of you." The speeder said, revealing it to be Knock Out.

"Is that…?" Lux started.

"Knock Out." Ahsoka recognized.

"Glad to know you know me. Pals!" Knock Out summoned, making four commando droids to get out of him and aim their weapons at them. "And in case you haven't figure it out, my calvary had improved bodies with cortosis, in case you're thinking of using your lightsaber against my fellas, Jedi."

"Oh, I don't need them to crush your minions." Ahsoka smirked before levitating them in the air and crushing them into scrap.

"Scrap. I guess I better not underestimate you. Smile!" The red Con said, pulling out one of his vehicle mode's weapons.

"Lux, run!" Ahsoka told her husband.

Lux tried to run but the cannon flashed a blinding light. A minute later, both of them woke up on Knock Out's trunk.

"Kick back, relax and enjoy the scenery." The Decepticon simply said before he slammed the door and drove off, leaving only behind a crashed com-device.

Knock Out was now driving along the road.

"Knock Out to Lord Megatron, I have secured one vintage Predacon talon. Plus, two of the Autobots' pets, one of them a Jedi, for you to employ as hostages, lab experiments…well, any way you see fit. So go on, big M, tell me you love me more than Starscream." He said, but he only received static. "My liege? Hello? To familiar?"

Back to the Nemesis, the Predacon was observing how the Seekers were attempting to repair the antenna.

"The primitive mutt demolishes our entire communications network." Slipstream started.

"And Lord Megatron intends to breed more of it?!" Starscream finished.

"Would you hurry?! We want this fixed before our master…is…bothered…by such distracting menusher." Thundercracker told to two Decepticon engineers and some battle droids. Once they finished, Thundercracker went to the control panel from behind the array and typed some buttons. "Entering access override code and rebooting now."

Everything seemed fixed, until an energy surge caused the array to burst.

"Uh-oh." One of the droids said.

"No, no, no, no. Ragh!" Starscream groaned as he started kicking the array in rage, while the Predacon watched.

Meanwhile, at the Autobot base, the kids ended their training and now were playing a first-shoot video game, one similar to Battlefront 2. Except Sky, who walked around worried.

"It's really taking them a while." Sky noticed.

"Arcee and Wheeljack?" Aris asked.

"Mom and dad. Maybe they stopped for dinner."

"Isn't that what grown-ups do when they're dating?" Luke asked.

"Yep. And for all our parents is something very normal." Leia added.

"Except if they were doing that, they would have told me they were going to be late." Sky defended.

"Relax Sky, they'll be fine. Just calm down and try to have some fun with all us and our other little fella meanwhile time pass." Aris said, giving a hug to him, intending to calm down her friend.

"Wait, what do you mean with that "other little fella"?" Ratchet asked a little worried.

By having a better look, Ratchet saw a little green creature with the children, someone which looked the same as master Yoda, but in little.

"It's my imagination or you're having some kind of great-great-nephew of master Yoda there?"

"No, no! It's not that, Ratchet. This cute little one here is Grogu. He may look like master Yoda, but he's a baby, despite he has more than fifty years." Aris revealed, grabbing the little boy.

"Fifty years and he's still that little?! And I thought we cybertronians had long life cycles." Ratchet exclaimed in real disbelief.

"Well, not as long as you, but still more than any of us. We offered ourselves to babysit him for a while this time." Leia added.

Ratchet sighed in relief. "I was starting to become worried for the fact of having to keep an eye on him too." But he later noticed that the kids were looking at him confused and suspicious, so he became nervous. "Ah, but that doesn't mean that I still feel some incommodity at having all of you here, just…" And then, he sighed embarrassed. "Forget about it. Just make sure he doesn't touch any sensitive equipment." He ended, having the children nodding at him before he came back to his work.

Then Sky's com-device sounded, which made him happy.

"Mom! Dad!"

"Guess again, Skyguy." Han answered.

"Han! That's our dad's nickname! Don't copy!" Luke complained.

"Hehehe, sorry."

Han was talking while he and the others were on their way back to base aboard Ultra Magnus's ship.

"And I hope you are not still hungry, because I'm bringing back something way cooler than snacks." Han said looking the Apex Armor.

"If that can be eaten." Leia said.

"I can't talk Han, I need my line free." Sky answered as he was about to hang up.

"Wait! Don't hang up." Han asked. "Did Wheeljack show? I think Bulkhead is really worried about him."

"Wheeljack is fine, he's on a mission with Arcee."

"Wheeljack is riding with a new partner already?! That's cold."

"What? No, it's just one mission. They're not partners."

"Haha, I wondered how long it would have taken our lone wolves to hook up."

"Bye, Han." And he hung up first.

"Hello?" Han asked. "He hung up."

At the same time, Knock Out continued his way with Lux and Ahsoka stuck inside him.

"This isn't how I expected our night will be." Lux said.

"Well neither me, but here we are." Ahsoka added. "At least we did well at no waiting for Optimus."

"Why that now?"

"Because if we did so, this Con would have been at the museum too, and he would have snagged the talon before Optimus got there."

Lux sighed. "Well, given our current situation, I don't see any difference. One thing for sure, Sky's gonna be very worried."

"If only we had told him to call us every so often."

"Hello! How long have you two been dating? Because you bicker like an old married couple." Knock Out involved.

"Well, it would have been if it wasn't for you." Lux defended.

"Frankly I find it repulsive: the whole idea of you fleshies…interfacing…" Knock Out said before shuddering.

"Oh please, like if you know what dating means for a man and a woman!" Ahsoka argued.

"Hey, don't misunderstand me! There are many Decepticon girls who have been crazy about me, but there's one girl that I'm… But, but, but what I'm doing talking about these things with you two?!" Knock Out shouted before trying to communicate with the Nemesis. "Knock Out to base, requesting pickup, again." But he only heard static again. "Alright, is anyone up there receiving me?!"

"Ahsoka, dear." Lux whispered. "If this Con get us to Megatron's warship, the chances of the Bots ever finding us decrease a thousand-fold."

"Especially with the droid fleet now on their side. Never let a Decepticon take you to a second location. I forgot to bring my lightsabers. Do you have anything we could use as a weapon?"

"No, I don't have a blaster. But…" He pulled out from his pocket some kind of grenades. "Droid poppers?"

"On a Con? I hope it works."

Meanwhile, the two Autobots were using mining drills to make a path to the bone.

"Guys like Magnus, I don't let them peel my paint, I peel theirs." Wheeljack was telling.

"So if it isn't the new commander who's grinding your gears…its Bulkhead." Arcee deduced.

Wheeljack sighed. "It's just burns me up when a Wrecker goes soft."

"Look, Wheeljack. You'll always have the Wreckers as you knew them. In here." Arcee said placing a hand over her chest as Wheeljack continued digging. "Times change, players come and go, and if you can't adapt, you'll rust, like the bones we're digging for. Don't push Bulkhead away. If something happens to him you would never forgive yourself." That made Wheeljack stopped drilling. "Trust me, I know." Arcee finished with sad eyes.

Back with Knock Out, he continued driving until he arrived to a bunk of railroad tracks.

"Knock Out to base. Requesting a ground bridge for the umpteenth time. Come in, base." He asked, but only received more static, which made him groan. "I can't drive around all night…"

Suddenly, he sensed a few ball-like objects bouncing on the main seats.

"Hey, what was that?"

Then the objects started to activate.

"What in the…?"

But before he could finish, the grenades generated an EMP, which electrified Knock Out, making him make a sharp turn for the tracks and later stop.

"Oh great, I'm fried!" Knock Out groaned.

"Now!" Ahsoka signaled.

Lux ran out of Knock Out with the talon box, while Ahsoka went the other direction.

"Well, isn't that just grand?!" Knock Out expressed before he transformed and grabbed Ahsoka. Next, he faced her. "Did I say grand? I meant…totally rude."

"Oh, you haven't seen anything yet." She said before she unleashed a storm of Force lightning at him, electrocuting him.

"Ah, not again." He said falling to the ground backwards.

The pain caused him to release her, who managed to escape. It took Knock Out a while to recover, noticing a lot of parked box train cars.

"Oh, are we playing a native game now?" Knock Out asked as he started advancing between the trains. "Because I would be happy to teach you the Decepticon version: hide-and-go-shriek." He laughed maliciously.

While Knock Out was looking for them, Lux and Ahsoka continued evading him as they tried to find each other. Ahsoka tried to use her com-device to call for help.

"Anakin, do you receive me? Me and Lux are in trouble with a Decepticon." She called in low voice, but she only received static. "Anakin, are you there? Anakin! Looks like the droid poppers fried my device too. Just when I need my former master when I have been abducted by a Decepticon."

Being unable to get help, she decided to look for her husband by her own.

"Lux! Lux! Where are you?"

"Aha!" Knock Out shouted before he grabbed Ahsoka through the other side of the box because it was opened from both sides. "Alright, little gentleman, show yourself! Or I turn your exotic friend here into a sloppy stain on the tarmac!"

Lux heard everything from his hiding place, knowing that his wife was captured. Meanwhile, Sky was still trying to contact his parents.

"This is senator Lux Bonteri. I'm not available right now. If it is something important, leave a message to the senate main office."

"Straight to voicemail, both of them." Sky observed.

"Maybe they went to a movie." Luke suggested as he and the girls were with the laptop.

"Worried?" D-O asked.

"Yeah." Sky answered. "I think I should take a look."

"Tell BB-8. He'll help."

At the same time, the two Autobots were moving through the cave.

"Ok, running from Bulk, shutting down like that, pretty spineless on me." Wheeljack confessed.

"On the bright side, you have plenty of backbone now." Arcee said looking back, pulling of the Predacon spine.

"You know how to help others, Arcee. What's your secret?"

"Hehehe, no secret. Just a lot of experience."

"You sure know about these things."

"Having leaders like Optimus and Elita helps more than you think, but more than that, having friends which you can always count on. Like Sky, Cliff…That's Team Prime's big secret. Curious, now I start to see myself as Cliff when he and me met at first, and you in my place, of course."

In that moment, Arcee's com-link sounded. She guessed who may be.

"Hi Sky, how are you doing?"

"Arcee, I need your help."

Sky travelled to the museum where the Predacon talon was supposed to be.

"My parents may be in serious trouble." He said worried picking the smashed com device.

Speaking about them, Knock Out continued wandering around looking for Lux with Ahsoka at hand.

"Last chance, mister senator! If you are not out here with my prize in 2.3 seconds your alien girlfriend here…!" Knock Out menaced until a train departing got his attention.

He turned around and as the hovertrain left it revealed Lux, with the box in his arms.

"Okay, first: not my girlfriend. My wife." Lux started.

That made Knock Out look at Ahsoka completely confused. "Really? But…you are not even the same species." He said pointing at her.

Ahsoka groaned in disbelief. "Seriously?"

"And second: you are not laying a metal digit on her." He said smashing the box to the ground, revealing that it was empty. "Not if you ever want to see your precious talon again."

Knock Out grabbed him immediately. "Where is it?"

"Leave him alone!" Ahsoka demanded.

Lux struggled. "I hid it on a train car. Let us go and I'll tell you which one."

Knock Out sneered before looking around the area. He growled in frustration, but then he realized that the talon was on the train that just departed.

"Try as you might…you can't con a Con." Knock Out smirked.

It was true: the talon was inside the train, so Knock Out was following it, with Lux and Ahsoka sat again on the back seats.

"Fasten your seat belts; it's going to be a bumpy ride." Knock Out advised as they tried to unbuckle the belts. "Oh wait, you can't unfasten your belts. My bad."

Meanwhile, on the Nemesis, Megatron finally discovered the incident with the communications' array.

"Communications have been down for how long?!" He asked mad.

"Soundwave practically has the dish repaired, master." Starscream pointed, trying to calm down his leader.

"Which is all well and good for Soundwave. But for you…!"

"Knock Out to Lord Megatron, please come in!"

"See? Ha, all fixed." Starscream reassured.

"Knock Out, do you have the Predacon bone?" Megatron asked while Knock Out continued driving.

"In my sights, my liege. As are a pair of Autobots riding my rear." He answered seeing Wheeljack and Arcee on his rear-view mirror.

"Understood. Just make sure you secure the specimen."

Arcee was getting close to Knock Out, even firing her vehicle weapons at him to try slow him down.

"Oh great, just what I needed!" Knock Out complained.

Suddenly, the Decepticon ground bridge appeared above them and four Insecticons and two Lancet aerial artilleries shuttles flew out. Two Insecticons and one shuttle started to fire at her while the others concentrated on Wheeljack. But he transformed and wiped both bugs out with a spiral swing of his swords and blasting out the shuttle with a single shot before returning to vehicle form, dodging the remains. The remaining three continued blasting at Arcee, so she transformed really fast, spun around and fired, taking down one of the shuttle's wings, making it crash with one of the bugs, destroying it too. She returned back to vehicle form. Knock Out got close to the train.

"Now in which train car would a little deceptive human choose to bury a bone?" He asked examining the cars, until he located the one which contained the bone. "My money is on the convertible."

Knock Out speeded up, so Arcee was going to follow, but the last Insecticon swooped in and rammed her. She transformed before she crashed and wrecked, and saw Wheeljack coming behind her.

"Get Lux and Ahsoka!" She yelled.

Arcee saw the Insecticon circling around and returning at her, so she pulled out her laser handgun and fired, the shot spliced the bug in two before exploding. Meanwhile, Wheeljack was getting close to Knock Out.

"Here's where you get out." He said before drove up on the hillside.

Knock Out transformed and released Ahsoka and Lux in the process as he landed on the train. The couple screamed in terror as they fell, but Wheeljack transformed, grabbed them and returned to vehicle form while Arcee resumed the chase. But Knock Out already grabbed the talon and returned to vehicle form back to the road.

"Lord Megatron, if the ground bridge doesn't open tout suite your specimen will belong to the Autobots." Knock Out called alarmed through com-link.

The Decepticon ground bridge opened and Knock Out drove in and disappeared really fast before Arcee could reach it, so she returned to robot form as the train continued its way.

"Scrap." She cursed before noticing Wheeljack next to her. "Where are they?"

"In back." He said opening it, revealing them two still affected but safe.

"Hey Arcee." Ahsoka said relieved.

The ground bridge opened and the four returned back to base.

"Mom, dad." Sky said walking at them and hugging them, the same as they. "Are you alright?"

"The visit to the museum turned to like we used to roll the old times, but your father and I are just fine." Ahsoka reassured.

"Come on Sky, let's take some rest." Lux said as they walked together.

"Family reunited again." Leia observed.

"Hey guys. Looks like Sky's partner has a new partner." Han said arriving pointing at Arcee, who was talking with Wheeljack, right before he approached Bulkhead.

Once with him, he offered him his hand, and both saluted each other with a hand grab, Wrecker style.

"Family and friendship relationships, the best." Luke said.

"Glad to be your bro, brother." Han said.

"Always good to see friends and siblings back together." Leia added.

Back in the Nemesis, Knock Out was having a good day too as he showed the talon to Megatron.

"You have served me well today, Knock Out. Which is more than I can say for some!" Megatron said looking at Starscream and the other Seekers.

"Excuse me, Lord Megatron. But I think you are wrong about Starscream and all of us."

"Oh, and how do you plan to prove that, Thundercracker?"

"With this." He said pressing a button on a terminal, which showed a record of the Predacon smashing the dish. "A recording of one of the cameras I order install in the Predacon's domain, in order to catch some…unexpected and revealing details."

"Of course, Thundercracker is right. It was the beast that disrupted communications, our liege." Starscream defended.

"We beg you to reconsider Project Predacon. We have lots of resources and troops to work in more productive ideas." Slipstream followed.

"The creature is incorrigible, and void of all but the most rudimentary intelligence." Skywarp added.

"As they said, but that is not my point. During this last days, I have observed some curious and hiding details of the Predacon. It obviously responds to their masters, you and Shockwave, but it also has developed a certain contempt to those who tried to give it orders or try to tame it, like us. That shows that the creature possesses certain intelligence, character and even personality, one dominant. Those are traits that tells us that it not only is capable of think, but being able to interact with the environment and its individuals." Thundercracker explained.

"And your point?" Megatron asked.

"With these proofs, it is obvious that this Predacon is not an ordinary one, it's taking an alpha position, and combined with that increasing intelligence of it, it can't be anything good. If we don't take this problem seriously, we risk losing control of it, and maybe turning against us. That if only it realizes that it doesn't need to be under anyone's command, including yours. That's why I recommend both you and commander Shockwave to increase security measures against the Predacon."

"Your opinion is noted. But no need to worry about anything for now. The Predacon has shown who are exactly its true enemies."

But Megatron was not aware that on the flight deck, the Predacon was hacking its way through the communication array. Digging up all the information about Project Predacon.