A few Earth hours earlier: Nucleon, Cybertron
Dirge and his Decepticon seekers have returned to Nucleon with the heavy iron blaster and Huffer's corpse.
"Commander Starscream!" One of the seekers said reporting in.
"We have returned with an Elite Guard weapon and a traitor's corpse!" The seeker continued talking.
"Excellent! You seekers have done well!" Starscream said congratulating the seekers for their success.
"Give the weapon to Shockwave and Nitro!" Starscream said.
"Yes commander!" One of the seekers said.
"We will attempt to find use for it Commander Starscream!" Nitro said.
"Attempt Nitro? Be logical for once! We will find use for the weapon!" Shockwave said to Nitro.
"Forgive me Shockwave!" Nitro begged for forgiveness.
"Have you forgotten Nitro? I erased all my emotions! I am not a being that forgives!" Shockwave said.
"Commander! What of the deceased traitor?" One of the seekers asked.
"Take him to Mohawk's torture chamber! He will melt down his body and extract his energon!" Starscream said.
"Ooooh, oooooh, Melt! Melt! Hahahahaha!" Mohawk said getting excited. The seekers lifted Huffer's lifeless chassis and took to the torture chamber. Behind the other Decepticons, Dirge walked inside the Decepticon base firmly holding on to his damaged shoulder.
"Dirge! What happened?" Starscream asked noticing that Dirge has lost his left arm.
"Huffer used the heavy iron blaster on us!" Dirge explained.
"That is one powerful weapon!" Dirge continued talking.
"Oh how unfortunate!" Starscream said not really caring about Dirge's injury.
"Don't worry Starscream! Once I get a new arm I'll be back in fighting shape!" Dirge said actually believing that Starscream would allow him to live and get medical attention.
"Oh my dear Dirge! Given the little energon and other resources that we have, I'm afraid we can't give you a new arm and therefore you are now useless to the Decepticon cause!" Starscream said frightening Dirge.
"Take him to the torture chamber!" Starscream ordered the Decepticons as they grabbed Dirge and began dragging him to the torture chamber. Dirge tried the best he can to escape their grip but to no avail.
"Starscream please don't…..No….NO!" Dirge said crying out for mercy.
"Hehehehehe….I get to melt two bots! It must be my lucky day!" Mohawk said to himself really excited.
"Please don't do this to me Starscream! Please don't…." Dirge continued begging for Starscream to reconsider his own termination.
"Don't worry Dirge! I'll make it special for you! I'll melt you while you're alive…..slowly…and painfully! HAHAHAHAHA!" Mohawk said as he began maniacally laughing. Dirge continued to try to escape, even attempted to grab on to the wall with his right arm but was easily pulled inside. The door shut and all that the Decepticons could hear were the muffled screams coming from Dirge, Mohawk's constant laughing and random machines turning on as both Dirge and Huffer were being melted down and having their energon extracted.
"So Soundwave! What news do you have on Megatron's coordinates?" Starscream asked Soundwave wanting to know if Soundwave has found anything involving around Megatron.
"Nothing so far Commander Starscream!" Soundwave reported.
"You have been searching for weeks to no avail! Why is that?" Starscream asked annoyed by the how long it's taking to uncover Megatron's recent location.
"With all due respect Commander Starscream! We are having trouble locating it because all space bridges except for one have been destroyed, and Megatron hasn't sent a beacon to us in order to find him!" Soundwave explained.
"Well then where is the last space bridge at?" Starscream asked.
"At Kaon the Autobot Base!" Shockwave said.
"After Megatron's disappearance, the Autobots destroyed every other Space bridge but one, they shut it down and dropped it down to Cybertron's surface only to capture it and keep it away from us!" Onslaught said explaining why the space bridge is in Autobot custody.
"So the only way to reach Megatron's location is to infiltrate Kaon and liberate the space bridge!" Starscream said to himself while thinking of a plan. While thinking nobody even bothered to look at Mindwipe who was hiding in the other room angered in himself because Megatron is apparently still alive.
"Barricade!" Starscream said.
"Yes Commander Starscream!" Barricade said responding to Starscream.
"Six of our Decepticon soldiers have spotted an Autobot heading to an academy. You will go with Soundwave's minicons and spy on them in the shadows. If the Autobot kills the soldiers and starts leaving you will send Laserbeak, Ravage and Frenzy to follow them!" Starscream explained Barricade's mission.
"Understood!" Barricade said as he and Soundwave's minicons left Nucleon and traveled to the academy.
Now: Earth.
Hooligan has located a human junkyard and to repair his leg injury, has scanned a Volkswagen Type 2 and took it as a new disguise. He informs Megatron of his discovery and as he turns around, he notices that Megatron is starting to die. His left optic has already faded and he can barely even move.
"Master get up I've found a scrapyard, you can scan a vehicle to repair yourself!" Hooligan said trying to get Megatron up.
"Can't….Move….Feel…..Weak!" Megatron said barely able to talk. Hooligan didn't know what to do and then decided to inject some of his energon into Megatron. Hooligan injected less than half of his Energon and Megatron quickly recovered and was able to get up. Megatron walked to the scrapyard and activated his fusion cannon while Hooligan collapses from exhaustion and after losing some of his energon, he fired at the humans scaring them off and killing a few. Megatron would then proceed to scan a rusty Mack Titan Truck and drove off with Hooligan who quickly recovered after the injection.
"You have done well scavenger!" Megatron said.
"Thanks to you, I can now reunite with my Decepticons and conquer the universe just as I always planned!" Megatron said.
"Thank you my lord, I did the best I could. Even had to sacrifice most of my energon but it was worth it. I'm glad to be serving under your command!" Hooligan said.
"Now we need an open location to send a beacon to the Decepticons, Soundwave and Shockwave should be able to trace it!" Megatron said.
"I just did a scan of our location, we appear to be in an area called South Dakota!" Hooligan said.
"I found an open area known by the locals as the Badlands!" Hooligan continued talking.
"How far away is it?" Megatron asked.
"Not far, a few cycles from here!" Hooligan said. Megatron and Hooligan drove to the Badlands. After a few cycles of traveling. They arrive to the Badlands where Megatron sends a beacon from Earth to Cybertron.
"Ay what's this?" Onslaught asked.
"Hey Soundwave! Look at this!" Onslaught said trying to get Soundwave to come and look at the transmission they received.
"Do you think it could be?" Onslaught asked.
"It is!" Soundwave said.
"Primus! He's alive!" Onslaught said.
"Soundwave to all Decepticons! Soundwave to all Decepticons do you copy? Megatron is alive, I repeat! MEGATRON IS ALIVE!" Soundwave said broadcasting the message to every Decepticon alive on Cybertron.