It was a down day at the scrapyard. Russel was buffing Grimlock's armor. Fix-it was playing Go-Fish with Denny while Sideswipe watched as he lazily reclined behind them. Drift was cleaning his sword while Optimus told war stories to an enthusiastic Strongarm and Drift's mini-cons. Windblade was working on a stasis pod and Bumblebee was at the command center keeping an optic out for Con signals. Paige stepped outside of the trailer when she heard a commotion, but it was only Sideswipe and Strongarm getting into a fight again. Grimlock broke it up when the face of Micronus suddenly appeared on his armor. Naturally Grimlock freaked out. Micronus informed Optimus that he must return the portion of the other Prime's sparks and of course Optimus agreed.

"Wait," said Bumblebee stepping in front of Optimus protectively. "Optimus told us the first transfer nearly destroyed him. How do we know the reversal?"

"This isn't a Q and A session," said Micronus rudely cutting him off.

"Of course the Primes want the power to interfere with the living back again," said Paige loudly. "They may have gone to the Well, but they can't let their descendants live in peace. They already forced Optimus to fix their mistake. When they banished Megatronos to another dimension, it was only a matter of time before he broke free. Of course by that time they wouldn't have to deal with the problem themselves so they left it to their descendants. That was nice of you leaving your mess for others to clean up."

Micronus looked at her briefly with no emotion on his face. "Commence reversal," he said.

Optimus was pulled up in a column of light and he groaned in pain as the power was pulled from him.

"Stop! You're pulling him apart," cried Bumblebee. He and several others rushed forward, but a bright pulse of energy blasted them back.

When the energy pulse hit Paige, her screams of pain joined Optimus'. She collapsed to her knees and then to the ground as her left arm flared with intense pain. It felt like it was on fire and she cradled it to her body as the pain in her left hand increased to excruciating levels. She had never liked the Primes, but perhaps it was a mistake to insult them. She was definitely paying the price for it now. If this was how Rafael had felt when he was being treated for dark energon exposure, she had to give the kid props for surviving.

Behind her, Optimus was released from the light column and he collapsed to the ground. Bumblebee rushed over to help him up, while Denny went over to check on Paige.

"Optimus, are you okay?" asked Bumblebee.

"I'm alive," said Optimus rising shakily to his feet.

"Barely," said Bumblebee turning to glare at Micronus. "You took too much of his power."

Micronus scanned Optimus. "Optimus will recover."

"Yea, I don't know about Optimus," called Denny from where he crouched. "But I think you took Paige down too."

Paige was curled on the ground struggling to control her breathing. The pain in her left arm and hand had finally disappeared leaving a completely numb appendage. She could no longer feel her left arm at all.

"The human is of no consequence," said Micronus. "It was not my intention to harm her, however, she was contaminated with dark energon."

Paige laughed, a slightly hysterical disbelieving laugh. "Aw, you mad that you didn't foresee my presence?" she said sitting up still cradling her damaged appendage. "During the war, I had the knowledge to let Megatron win and I could have easily prevented the Autobots from destroying Megatronus. You are so lucky I didn't let him destroy us all. Go back to the Well! Micronus, you are not welcome here!"

Micronus disappeared and Russel reassured Grimlock that he was gone from his armor.

Naturally Optimus despite being weak protested that he was fine and still fit for duty. Paige truly wished that Ratchet was here. Ratchet would have told him to shut up and go recharge. Bumblebee on the other hand was trying to placate Optimus by allowing him to go on the next Con hunt. Once they located a remote signal in the Arctic, Fix-it bridged the team to their destination minus Strongarm, Grimlock and Bumblebee. Paige immediately shut the bridge down after they passed through and the bots looked over at her in surprise.

"Fix-it, please check the bridge for malfunctions," said Paige walking shakily away from the controls. "It seems to be a theme that every time a bridge is used to send someone to a cold destination, the bridge explodes. After being attacked by an undead Cybertronian, I can't deal with anymore drama right now."

"Sure thing," said Fix-it heading toward the bridge.

"Are you really all right?" asked Bumblebee as Paige wandered slowly past him.

"No," said Paige. "I can't feel my entire left arm let alone my hand. Maybe if I got treatment for dark energon exposure when it first happened then I might have recovered quickly or not reacted at all to that energy blast. When it hit me, it felt like all the nerves were burning. I don't know if I've lost this arm for good or not. Only time will tell."

"You really let Micronus have it," said Bumblebee.

"I was angry," said Paige. "My injuries don't even factor into it. I was mad that the Primes forced Optimus to clean up their mess. Sure I'm glad he's alive, but Optimus just came back online and they wanted him to fight Megatronus. Now he's out there on missions teaching the others to fight. I really hope he gets the chance to do what he loves instead of just fighting all the time. I feel sorry for him. He's like a big teddy bear that can't say no to the Primes that are bullying him to do their work. Micronus being so small is the worst bully out of them all."

Bumblebee laughed. "You're ridiculous. Micronus may have caused you to lose all functionality in your arm and yet you're mad at him for treating Optimus poorly. You are one strange human."

"I found some faulty wires," called Fix-it from near the ground bridge. "I need replacements."

Suddenly a bot fell from the sky and landed heavily in the scrapyard kicking up a haze of dust. It was a Con with a distinctive Greek helmet shaped head.

"I guess it's your turn to be angry," said Paige looking up at Bumblebee. She headed toward the control center so she'd be out of the way.

"Overload," snarled Bumblebee.

"Where is Optimus Prime?" demanded Overload. "He stoled the spotlight from me."

There was a tussle and then the rest of the remaining Autobots left to go after Overload. Two Decepticon mini-cons that had been captured earlier that week, managed to escape their stasis pod since Overload had damaged it when he landed. Paige already knew they would end up teaming up with Overload against Bumblebee. Fix-it successfully repaired the ground bridge while the Autobots were gone and then got to work on the broken stasis pod. Paige knew that Bumblebee had history with the Con and she was all for letting him have revenge because with Bumblebee things always turned out okay. That bot really didn't have a vengeful bone in his body. By the time the team returned with all three of their prisoners, an exhausted Paige was already asleep.