Elisabeth knew from the very first moment it would be hard. But she was ready for this to make it work. And it was a lot to do, because after all: She's dating an alien. Well… not dating him, but there was something surely there! So, she started this off by telling Megatron all about that is to know of human love. Because as a species which do not sexually reproduce, they only know just a little about the meaning of romance.

So, day by day, week, by week he understood more and more about it. And as the time went by, he sometimes forgot about who he used to be. Forgot about the war, the deaths, Cybertron, everything he worked for. It was hurtful to remember it anyway. So, it was better this way.

His plan was to leave it all behind, because there was nothing but death waiting for him if he ever returns. And strangely he wanted to live, because living like this felt so… free. After all, being a human turned out to be the freedom he yearned for so long.

On the other hand, he knew the responsibility he held. He knew he can't just leave all of this in pieces, unsolved. He wanted to be better from now on. And this started with little things like:

"I want to work," he said one night when they were eating dinner.

"Work?" she asked back confused. "Are you sure you want this? You have no studies on Earth and I doubt you got much education on your home planet. I mean that if you want to work, you first have to study."

"I can study… whatever I want?"

"Basically. Merlin was a straight A student in high-school, so with his diploma you could apply to any university you want and learn what you want" explained Elisabeth the situation which made Megatron's eyes light up in excitement like a kid's when it's Christmas. "But if you really want to work Merlin studied archaeology, so you could find a job with his diploma."

"What is archaeology?"

"Digging up the past. Literally" she answered giggling.

After a moment Ambrose and Melissa stormed in the front door which took both of them by surprise.

"Hi everybody, we need to do stuff! Sorry for interrupting your romantic dinner" exclaimed Mel as she put down her laptop, like it was the most natural thing for her to barge in other people's houses and sit in front of her laptop.

"When did you get a key here?" she asked while being puzzled as to how they got in.

"Merlin gave me keys here" Ambrose said as he pulled out the keychain from his pocket as he sat down next to Mel. "When you know… he moved in here."

"That doesn't matter! So, the thing is, our boy" there she pointed at Ambrose "says black market is full with this stuff" there Ambrose put a futuristic looking gun on the table.

"Is this familiar to you?" he asked Megatron who seemed to recognise the weapon.

"This is a blaster, but human sized" he said as he picked the weapon and inspected it. It was a perfect copy of an ion blaster, just smaller. "Shoots through a human as easily as the knife cuts through the butter."

"I know. My men learnt it the hard way" he chuckled. "The thing is, a rival of mine just bought about a thousand of these blasters along with something classified as 'space stuff'."

"This means this got out of the testing phase into the production phase. And if this weapon proves to be good in the future, war will be inevitable. You have to help" Melissa said, trying to explain the situation to him.

"I am in," he said as he put down the blaster. "After all this is the remains of my kind. I have to make sure they do not fall into the wrong hands."

"Also, I located an abandoned laboratory not far from where the exchange will take place around midnight. It's small and no one's guarding it, but it could be that there's something there. So, here's the plan: You and Ambrose go and seize the stuff with the help of Ambrose's men, while Elisabeth and I scavenge the lab."

"Tonight? Couldn't you just say it earlier?!" shouted Elisabeth outraged about that they barged into their house and told them to spend the whole evening doing god knows what!

"Not really, but it seems even your pretty boyfriend is in, so?"

"Ugh, fine! Let's go kill ourselves while we're at it!"

So somewhere around midnight Elisabeth and Melissa were entering the abandoned lab with flashlights in their hands.

"So… How does your relationship with our alien guy progress?" Mel asked as the silence became unbearable.

"Good" Beth answered as she became redder.

"More details please!" she said as she held up the flashlight so they started to search for a fuse to turn on the light.

"We kissed on a hospital bed about a month ago and now we're 'dating' if that's what you want to so desperately know, Mel" Elisabeth snapped as she found the fuse and turned the lights on.

"Great! Now you're dating an evil warlord! I can't wait to see your mom's face when she hears it!" she shouted amused as they looked at the strange, portal-like device in front of them.

"One: mom won't hear about it. Two: he's not a bad person and even if he is, he tries to be better. Three: what the heck is this?"

"Don't know, but someone was…" then suddenly creaking was heard not far away, so Elisabeth and Melissa were standing scared,back-to-back as they waited for something to happen.

"Is anyone here?!" she shouted as now a shush was heard. Something was here, but it could be they are just wild animals seeking shelter.

"Beth" Mel whispered "This stuff is on and points on a coordinate" there she pointed at the screen where a lot of strange writing were along with numbers.

"You said this place is abandoned!"

"It supposed to be…. Agrh!"

In that moment a huge cat jumped on them it's claws just almost missing Melissa. But as Elisabeth focused on their attacker, she noticed that it was not just a huge cat. This thing looked more like a jaguar and was made of metal. On one of its legs, she noticed a symbol, the symbol.

"Wait! This is a Decepticon! Hey! Whomever you are, we are here to help! We're Megatron's friends!" Elisabeth shouted, making the robot jaguar stop in mid attack. It still looked tense, but it seemed it understood her words. After a moment it just walked past them as another thing, looking like a bird, flew onto it's back.

"This was intense…" Mel sighed in relief, while Beth followed the two cybertronians.

"Let's follow them. Maybe they wanna show us something" she said walking next to them.

"They tried to kill us a minute ago. Are you in your right mind?!"

"It was a misunderstanding. I'm sure they didn't mean to harm us. After all, this word is… alien to them. Of course, at first they will be hostile towards anyone they don't know."

"Thank you for having more empathy towards aliens than humans. But what am I saying? You're dating one" she shook her head.

"Are you done?" Then they arrived at a control panel which had a lot of errors on it. "I think they want to start this stuff, but know little about human computer science."

"I can solve it," Mel said as she looked at the screen. "But you two never ever attack me again!" she pointed at the two as she set out to fix the computer.

As she tried to fix it, Elisabeth went closer to the two carefully and cautiously. Because of course she didn't want to end up torn into pieces. But it seemed the jaguar recognised something as it sniffed the air. Then it looked at Beth, came closer and sniffed her jacket.

"You have our Lord's scent all over you" the jaguar said quietly only for her to hear. "Who are you?"

"Call me Elisabeth. And you?"

"Designation: Ravage."

"And your partner?"

"Designation: Laserbeak."

"Cool names" said Elisabeth as she petted Ravage on the head, who seemed to like it. "How did you get here? Why do you need to fix the sci-fi machine?"

"I came in an escape pod not long ago. Laserbeak came with Megatron. We seek to bring back our master" Ravage explained the situation and purred in delight as Beth continued to pat his head like he was a real cat, while Laserbeak chirped something. "How do you know our Lord? Laserbeak said he is not a fan of the inhabitants of this planet."

"He's stuck in my friend's body. I'm helping him in his search for his home."

"I'm done!" Mel shouted as she pressed something and the portal thing turned on loud and seemingly unstable. Also, strong wind came as it opened, so both women put their arms before their faces to shield themselves. But after a sudden wave and the loud voice of a plane, the portal closed and seemed to be totally broken. "I don't know what this was but now it's broken."

"No shit Sherlock!" Elisabeth snapped, but when she heard the sound of cogs turning, she looked to the source to find a tall faceless robot staring at her. She immediately recognised him as Soundwave, Megatron's third (?) in command.

"Master!" Ravage exclaimed as he ran towards the bot and rubbed his head to his leg, while Laserbeak seemed to take his place in Soundwave's chest.

"You must be Soundwave. Megatron talked about you highly."

"Megatron talked about you?" he replayed her voice, but edited it to sound like a question.

"The human has his scent all over her" Ravage cut in. "She said, she helps our Lord."

"I think help is not a strong word for what I'm doing. I'm more like taking care of him physically as well as mentally. But I can take you to him and you two can talk about this whole thing."

"Take me to him" he replayed her voice as he kneeled and extended his hand towards her, signalling to hop on.

Meanwhile…

Ambrose and Megatron were hiding behind some containers as they watched the things happening, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. There's gonna be a fight and he's gonna be kicking ass just like before all of this. But he was rather thinking about why it feels so wrong that he has to fight once again. It was so confusing to him. All those thoughts have been torturing him since that day, sometimes he felt as if the guilt is going to eat him alive. Sometimes all of these were just too much for him to handle. Sometimes he broke down, crying for hours without an end, while Elisabeth held him tight, trying to comfort him.

"It's almost time" whispered Ambrose as he signalled to his men.

"Do we kill them?"

"Yes, we do. Look" he said while seeing his face "you may think we are the bad guys like the rest of the world, but let me tell you this. We are stopping others from starting wars. We. Not the government, who actually supposed to do this shit. So even if the whole world thinks we are the bad guys, I will still believe we're not. We are the good ones; they are just too blind to see it."

"You remind me of myself before the war. I thought I was doing the right thing too. Until I had to face it, that I'm not."

"But did that ever stop you from what you wanted to achieve?"

"No."

"Then now you know. Get your weapons ready, we're going to attack on three" he said as he loaded his gun. "One. Two. Three!"

In that moment he ran out of their cover and started to shoot all of those down who came in his way with the blaster Ambrose gave him with saying that he could handle it easily. Which wasn't true by the way. He was good with cannons, but ion blasters weren't his thing. He hated them because they lacked the ability to cause damage as fast as he wished. But now they were perfect as the human's skin was no match for a cybertonian's. So, he shot everyone down with perfect accuracy. But when someone came closer, he took out the knife he was given and fought with it.

After a while, the adrenalin took over and everything became a blurred mess. The screams, the blood, the dead all faded away as he fought. Until no one remained.

The first thing after the blur was Ambrose who put a reassuring hand on his shoulder as his men cleaned up the mess and brought the 'goods' forward to see. First the blasters, second a whole load of energon and last but foremost was his sword. When they opened up the box and he saw the dark star saber, he looked confused. The sword no longer glowed purple, or was purple. It looked grey as if it had been turned off. Which was ridiculous and somewhat understandable for a magic sword made from the blood of Unicron.

"You seem to recognise this one. What's up with the sword?" Ambrose asked as he lighted his cigarette.

"I made this sword. It belongs to me" Megatron answered as he ran his finger through on the hilt, which seemed to respond to its master. It started to shrink until it was human sized and he could easily wield it. But even when he picked it up, it stayed grey which meant one thing. He was unworthy of the sword. It was funny. Being unworthy of an evil sword that he made.

"If you say so."

After don't even a minute passed as Megatron felt something coming and listening to his instincts, he swung the sword, which landed between the jaws of a familiar face.

"I missed you too Ravage!" he laughed as he recognised Ravage, while he pushed the minicon away to make distance between them.

"You have his scent like the human I met," he said, circling him. It took him a moment to realise exactly which human could have his scent.

"If you hurt Elisabeth, I will throw you to the scraplets and watch as they eat you alive" he said in a dangerously low voice.

"Is it an old friend Megatron?" Ambrose asked, leaning on the wall of a container, unfazed by the whole fight.

"Not now!" he snapped at him.

"Megatron? Can it be? What the human said was true?" Ravage asked confusedly as he looked at him from head to toe.

"Yes, it is. And it seems you have forgotten how to greet your Lord and Master" he said, trying to sound like before, but he felt that this whole 'Lord and Master' thing was ridiculous. "Now, tell me. Where is Elisabeth?" It seemed his look made Ravage recede.

"She helped us, freed the master with her friend. They can arrive at any…"

This moment loud steps were heard and in the distance Soundwave's figure appeared and in his hands were sitting Elisabeth and Melissa.

"Hey, Meg! Look who did I find to help us!" Beth shouted as she waved to her boyfriend.