Optimus gave up on Arcee's comm as he didn't believe she was dead yet. Her comm and transmitter must be broken!. He knew her too long to think she'd go out so easily. Plus she'd drag herself home if she had no other choice just to protect Jack. Jack was very uneasy as Ratchet worked on removing shrapnel from Bulkheads backsides. Bumblebee was resting off A nasty bang to the head as Raf was trying to find Arcee's life signal or some other trace. Optimus grimaced darkly as he watch Raf work like a mad man, he clearly also had a personal stake along with everyone else in base. He inwardly hoped to the all spark Arcee still functioned and was far away from the nemesis. Please protect her lord, he thought as he continued to keep a controlled aura about him even though it was extremely difficult for him to keep it up all the time. Looking to Jack he saw the boy holding together mainly thanks to what he observed from himself. Impressed he allowed himself to smile just a little. Suddenly a message came on from Fowler.

"I've got a message from the cons, 'Orion you have always been persistent have you?. Well it's going cost you dearly. I have Arcee who is alive currently and a human by the name of John floyd. The latter is going to be a part of a grand experiment I will unveil in due time as for Arcee let me just say I won myself a new pet" Fowler relayed the message and Optimus broke his cool.

"He's a dead mech if he touches either of them!" He belted out in a short outburst that caught everyone offguard including the agent. Optimus realized it and quickly regained his composure. "My apologies, pushed the right button" He said as he felt like he crossed a line but everyone else it was only natural.

"It's fine prime, it's only natural. I'll update you if I get anything else over and out" Fowler replied putting Optimus somewhat at ease before disconnecting.

"I'd pay to know what's gonna happen to that Floyd fella" Miko added with genuine curiosity.

"Don't we all" Ratchet answered for everyone as he worked on bulkhead.

"Let's just focus on finding the nemesis before they get to their 'grand' experiment" Jack added as he took position besides Raf.

Luck for him he had CIA, NSA, NASA and even weather satellites to aid him in his quest to find the nemesis in time. Jack keep a keen eye on the computer as Raf worked to no end. Optimus decided it was Best research this 'John Floyd' Who had unfortunately gone into the situation somehow. Poor soul soon to be lost to this forsaken war. He mused darkly as he grabbed his data pad to see Fowler had sent him the full file on Floyd.

John flayed about in pain as another shock of electrified energon ripped through him for the third time in a row. Arcee who was restrained in front of him looked away as he screamed again in agony. Arcee shuddered as his screams echoed throughout the Circular room. Above her was a vent and was where she was hung from by Anti-gravity shackles. The screaming died as the Electric prod was pulled away to let the human (which was needed alive) to breathe and regain himself. Weak gasps for breath escaped the humans lips as he shook violently from the "persuasion" used to crack Arcee to giving vital info. Tears escaped his eyes as he burned all over as if he had been lit ablaze.

"Just look at him twitch, much like Fowler on his first time. starscream remarked somewhat nostalgically.

Arcee sharply looked up at him and scowled in anger. Starscream smirked as he threatened as he brought the prod to the boys chest once again. Her anger faded and he stopped.

"Good autobot, you'll soon be obedient to your new master. Now we could do this for god knows how long or you can give me the location of your base and he could go on and hopefully die in the experiment" Starscream said holding no value in human life at all.

John looked up as the pain still dominated everything and cracked a smile.

"You afraid ya high heel wearing freak!" John laughed as he had gotten a kick out of insulting the second in command.

Starcream eyed the boy in a flash of anger and in retaliation prodded John again. The burning began again as he jolted around in pain. Screaming out for dear life John kept up the insults.

"Come on I've seen monks torture better than this!" He yelled out between screens and raising the second in command even further.

A dark chuckle sounded from behind Arcee. Megaton was amused as the insults kept flying as the boy suffered deeply for them.

"That's enough! We need him functional" Megatron said stopping his underling.

He pulled away the prod and stepped away. John grinned through the pain as he jolted and shuddered in agony. Arcee watched the poor human as he was suffering from direct energon exposure which would soon lead vomiting and uncontrollable shakes for a few hours.

"I thought Mussolini was a bitch but you take the cake screamer!" John added to Pile of insults making the jet increasingly angry.

Megatron only laughed in amusement as he enjoyed the humans tenacious fighting spirit. Arcee shivered as John was taken away by a drone as Starscream was quick bushed out by megatron. He smiled broadly as he looked at her and turned to face her. He locked the door and smiled wickedly. Her shackles lowered her down but kept her in place. Her peds only 6 inches from the ground hung there uselessly. Damn it all. She cursed internally as she hung. Megatron loomed over her as she reached around and suddenly unclimbed her armour skirt below the waist. She suddenly felt even more fearful as the warlord grinned with a psychotic glee about him. His piercing red optics locked with hers.

"Your sick!" She hissed as he only chuckled as he undid his lower armor.

Moans escaped the room as two drones passed. Both quickened their pace as their leader pleased himself with their captive autobot. Both cons rounded the corner and only heard the Autobots desperate cry's for help.

"The prime's gonna lose his scrap if he hears" STV-1138 said as he walked on.

"No scrap" Thx-421 replied as they passed knockouts lab.

John had long been sedated as he was wired into a Cortical psychic patch. Knockout hooked the other end into a protoform body which was fuelled up with energon. Breakdown was dealing with supervisory duties as Knockout prepared for the mind/soul pass through. Project metamorphosis will soon be underway. He mused as he checked the primary connections. Any mistake would kill the test subject, which may be a blessing depending on the way it's looked at. Seeing the connection is perfectly stable his hand hovered over the activation switch, Moans sounded in the background. Poor Arcee. He thought as he felt bad for the femme as she was being sexually used. Pulling the switch a sudden flash emanated from the optics of the protoform as it jolted suddenly. The human body's vitals dropped off completely whilst the new body began to rise in its vitals.

"I'm a Genius!" The cons medic jumped as he saw no one killing the mood. What a buzz kill. He thought as he checked the newly made Mech's vitals.