Paige cooled her heels in her cell. Luckily Shockwave and Knockout were preoccupied with Ratchet in the lab and Megatron had deemed that the Synth-en formula was more important than her. All she had to do was keep herself alive long enough for Ratchet to finish the formula and Optimus to find the location of the Nemesis with the help of Wheeljack's and Raf's creation. As long as she avoided any explosions during the fight, she'd live to see the end. If everything went as planned, Ratchet would escape and send the Predacon off to attack Megatron and the Autobots would launch a full attack on the Nemesis.
It was many hours later when Paige felt the ship rock as explosions erupted on the Nemesis. A few of the Vehicon guards had run by going off to join the battle. She looked up when a Vehicon was blasted past her cell and someone ran past. She heard the sound of crunching metal and then the bot ran past her cell again, stopped and then backtracked.
"Hey there kid," said Wheeljack looking in.
"Hi," said Paige waving.
"We were wondering what happened to you?" said Bulkhead coming up to stand next to him. "We didn't think the Cons would be interested in a human and we were hoping that you escaped."
"Well tall humans seem to be irresistible and Soundwave apparently decided I should visit," said Paige. "The accommodations could be better though."
Ultra Magnus came into view and shot open her cell door. Bulkhead pulled the door open so she could leave and she quickly followed them to the bridge. As much as she would have liked to see Megatron's defeat by Bumblebee, she didn't think there'd be any oxygen present out there. It was already thin enough on the ship and Wheeljack had to help support her on their way to the bridge when she started to become dizzy from oxygen deprivation.
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The battle was won and the power beam from the Omega Lock that had been constructed on the Nemesis blanketed the ship's screen with a brilliant blue glow. The cyber matter energon beam was sent straight into the Well of Allsparks and after a few moments, Cybertron began to slowly glow with power.
"Such luster," said Knockout from where he was standing on the bridge. When the Autobots turned to look at him, he said, "What? I'm joining the winning team."
Miko encased in the Apex armor promptly punched him effectively knocking him out. The Autobots and their allies watched as the surviving Predacon flew off the ship and into the rising sun.
"Good job," said Paige patting Ratchet's arm. "I knew you could do it. You sure have a lot of fight left in you for an old bot. Congrats on getting your world back."
"Well," stuttered Ratchet at a loss for how to respond.
"I'm just relieved they fell for all my lies. I didn't want to be the one to hold you back," said Paige looking out at Cybertron. She marveled at it. She was actually seeing another planet and it was beautiful. She could only imagine how Earth would look from space in person.
"Then what you said in the holding cell wasn't true," stated Ratchet. "You don't actually believe anything you said."
"Of course not Ratchet. I'm a far better liar than you are," she said smiling. "I don't even know if there was a relic that affected me. My knowledge of Quintessans comes from old stories like everything else and as for your temperament toward the kids, I'm sure it's not as disagreeable as you'd have the Decepticons believe."
Ratchet snorted.
