Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers Prime. I only own the OC George Edwards/Bladewolf Prime.

So, Bulkhead and I told the team our experiences being on the Nemesis. I didn't go into much, I just said I used stealth, avoided Soundwave, got caught by Megatron and the Insecticons before I bolted just in time for the ship to fall and hit the ground.

"You trashed Megatron's ride like a rock star in a hotel room." Miko stated while going into a pose. I let out a couple of chuckles at that.

"We should hit the 'Cons now." Chromia suggested.

Arcee nodded as she stood by me. "They're vulnerable."

Ratchet, however, was against this idea. "Megatron's warship may be grounded, but let's not forget that we remain vastly outnumbered, especially since he has added the Insecticon hive to his ranks."

"Then maybe it's time for me to call in an air strike." Fowler suggested. That actually wouldn't be such a bad idea. An airstrike could be launched at a distance, minimizing casualties, and it would cripple the ship even more than it already was.

"Or," Optimus stated. "for us to consider extreme measures Agent Fowler."

"The Spark Extractor." I said grimly.

Optimus nodded before going down the hall to get it with Ratchet and myself following. We arrived at the vault doors and opened the one containing the Spark Extractor.

"Optimus, are you sure you wan to travel down this road?" Ratchet asked, even he seemed hesitant to go this way,

I glanced at Optimus as he said, "While I am deeply reluctant to deploy a weapon of this caliber, especially one forged by Decepticon hands, this may be our only chance to end the war, once and for all."

A shiver traveled up my spine as he said that and I just watched as they picked up the extractor and took it away. That was a weapon that could kill a bot if it was activated by accident. Of course, killing bots was its purpose and so that did not help me suppress the shiver that I was feeling anyways. Here I was, staring at a weapon that could kill just by turning it on. It wasn't like a blaster in which you could just charge but, if you decided not to use it, you could dissipate the charge and not damage could come or like a sword where you could pull back your blow. This weapon would kill once activated.

Of course, once we got back to the main room, I knew that scrap was going to get real as Ratchet ran up to the monitor, which was beeping.

"Optimus, I'm detecting a massive energy spike at the Decepticon crash site. It appears to be Dark Energon." Ratchet reported.

Cliffjumper groaned. "Not the bad stuff again."

"I thought we'd be done with that stuff after we put Unicorn back to sleep." Jazz said in agreement.

There was silence for a second before Ratchet walked to the bridge and activated the coordinate. "Autobots," Optimus started. "transform and roll out."

We all then transformed before all of us except for Optimus, Ratchet and Red Alert drove through. Once we were through, I could only stare at the ship in shock. Never thought Megatron could get this desperate... oh who am I kidding? Of course he'd get as desperate as this!

When Optimus finally joined us, we all transformed back into our robot forms and Fowler jogged to the front before he said, "Sweet lady liberty!"

"Yeah, I'm agreeing there." Ironhide nodded.

"So, how do we take on a ship powered with Dark Energon?" Trailbreaker asked.

We all got into fighting positions and waited for the 'Cons to make the first move. When the guns on the ship came out, I got ready as Optimus stepped forward. "Bumblebee now." He said through the comm link. Bumblebee heard him because the race car bolted forward.

"Arcee, Chromia, ironhide, Bladewolf, draw their fire." Optimus ordered before we all split up.

I smirked and deployed heavy weaponry like rockets and fired, sending the rockets into the side of the ship and exploding but I don't think it did that much damage, but they did take out some of the turrets.

"Good work!" Cliffjumper shouted over to me from where he and Jazz were.

We then continued to fire at the ship until a very familiar beam came from the ship and hit Bumblebee. Uh-oh. This wasn't going to end well. I just knew it.

"Bumblebee!" Optimus yelled as he ran toward the fallen scout.

But, Arcee was ahead of him. "Mine!" She yelled. What was this, keep away? "I heard that, babe!"

"Just wondering!" I shouted back.

"Quit the flirting, you two!" Elita called over to us.

My optics widened as I saw Arcee get hit and I was flooded with pain for a while. That... is gonna hurt! I saw that I was the next target and the beam fired, so on instinct I changed back to human and ducked behind a rock, but I witnessed the rest of my team be hit and put into stasis.

I watched as the ship soon started to fly away. I sighed as Fowler came over. "What in Uncle Sam's beard just happened?" The agent asked.

"Nothing good." I said before I commed the base. "Ratchet, Red Alert, I need a bridge... the team is down."

Once Ratchet, Red Alert and I had gotten the team through, Ratchet and Red Alert wasted no time in examining the 'bots in stasis and seeing what was wrong.

"What's wrong with them? They're like statures." Miko asked while pointing out the obvious.

"They're alive, but I've never encountered this form of stasis lock." Ratchet stated as he looked over the scan data.

Fowler seemed to not be too happy with that answer. "The 'Cons are crossing the Atlantic. Making a beeline for North America."

"So we can track them." I stated with a frown.

"Why aren't they cloaked like usual?" Raf asked right after.

Fowler looked confused. "None of this makes a lick of sense. They had us in the cross-hairs and then the 'Cons just took off."

"They even bailed on that spark extractor thingy." Miko added.

"I got a feeling that Megatron adding Dark Energon to the warship's systems may have been a bad idea, especially on his part." I said, rubbing my chin. "But the only way we could know what's going on... is to ask Megatron himself."

"Wait, are you suggesting we just call Megatron and ask him what's going on?" Ratchet asked in disbelief.

"You got any better ideas?" I shot back. Ratchet went silent for several seconds before looking at Red Alert.

"It is our only option right now." He said.

Ratchet sighed before getting to work on trying to contact Megatron. "Autobot outpost Omega One to Decepticon warship." Ratchet called. But there was silence. "Megatron, please respond." Silence. "Megatron."

Suddenly, someone answered, and it wasn't Megatron. "Megatron has been relieved of his command."

"Who is this?" Ratchet questioned the deep voice. Ratchet, you don't question deep voices. It is shown in all movies that you just don't.

"Who is this?" The ship asked back.

But, Ratchet wasn't going to answer that. "Have you taken control of the Decepticon vessel?"

"I amthe vessel!" The ship responded. "Any Cybertronian who interferes with my mission will be neutralized."

"What mission?" Ratchet questioned further.

There was a quick period of silence before the ship said, "Priority one; decrypt Iacon database and recover Decepticon technology."

Okay Ratchet, don't push,

"For what purpose?" Ratchet asked.

The ship promptly hung up. Great, Ratchet pushed it.

"It hung up? Rude!" Miko huffed.

"Rude?! There's a giant spaceship flying around collecting Decepticon weapons of mass destruction!" Fowler reminded the girl.

I was silent, thinking something... reckless. Arcee will probably kill me for suggesting it and going through with it, but I've faced her wrath before. I nodded.

"Ratchet, open a groundbridge onto the warship." I said, getting everyone's attention. "I'm going in."

"WHAT?!" Ratchet, Red Alert, the kids and Fowler yelled.

"George, that's suicide!" Ratchet said.

"Dangerous!" Red Alert added.

"That's a ship filled with neutralized. Decepticons." I reminded them. "This could be our only chance to download the Iacon Database so Optimus can decode it. We don't want the 'Cons to get ten steps ahead of us and gains weapons that could harm this planet and all who walk upon it."

Ratchet and Red Alert shared a look before looking back at me. "Yet the ship will shoot a stasis beam at you." Ratchet reminded.

"The ship may be blind to me as long as I'm human. But I doubt it'll be fooled for long." I said. "I just need to get onboard, download the database and be out before you can say Bob's your uncle."

"Very well." Ratchet sighed. "But at the first sign of trouble, I am bridging you right back here." He then grabbed something from his workspace. "now, in order to download the database, you will need a compatible transfer drive."

"Got it." I nodded, taking the drive.

"We're going with." Miko piped in.

"No you are not." I said sternly. Before she, or the others, could argue I continued. "That ship's dangerous enough as it is. I will not allow you all to go onboard. Stay here with Fowler, Ratchet and Red Alert. I won't be gone long." I turned to Ratchet. "Now, open the groundbridge."

I jumped out the groundbridge and onto the familiar flooring of the Nemesis. Great, I hoped to not be back here so soon. I then contacted base. "George to base, I'm on the Nemesis."

"Good." Ratchet said. "Their data core should be accessible from any console."

"Got it." I said and walked onwards until I came down a corner and saw a console... with a neutralized Knockout in stasis mode. "Found one... and found Knockout."

"Doc Knock is knocked out." Miko snickered. Classic Miko.

I looked to the console screen and saw what was going on. "Oh boy. The ship's already decoded three sets of Iacon coordinates and the first is located...in New York City."

"What would a relic from Cybertron be doing in the Big Apple?" Fowler asked. Good question.

"The Iacon relics landed on Earth eons ago, Agent Fowler, long before the city was built atop it." Red Alert explained.

"Which means if the ship wants this one it may have to move some buildings out of the way." Jack said with horror in his voice.

I jumped onto Knockout and climbed over him to plug the drive into the port and commenced the download. "Commencing download. Now... we wait." I said grimly. An idea then hit me. "Ratchet, if this ship's fuelled by Dark Energon, it can be dumped, correct?"

I heard Ratchet hum in consideration before Red Alert spoke. "You'll need to reverse the ship's Energon fusion." I nodded before starting to run down the hall.

"Follow the overhead conduits they'll lead you to the power core." Ratchet said.

It didn't take me long to find the power core room, which was filled with Energone cubes, both normal and Dark. I blinked as I saw a frozen Megatron with his servo on the lever.

"Well, there's a sight worth a picture." I remarked as I approached.

"What is?" Ratchet asked.

"Megatron had the same idea." I said, jumping onto Megatron and making my way to the lever. I pressed my foot against the clenched servo around the lever and pushed, gritting my teeth as I put all my strength into it, but it worked and Megatron fell back, pulling the lever down as well.

"Critical power drain." The ship started to say. "I am in... command. Prepare to be... neutralized." The ship then finally shut down. Good ship. Now, roll over and play dead.

I jumped down and started walking away when Megatron suddenly went unfrozen and groaned.

"Time to run." I muttered and bolted, "Ratchet, open the bridge at my arrival coordinates. I'm getting the drive and we're out of here!"

"On it." Ratchet said.

I arrived at the console and jumped back onto Knockiut and onto the console, looking at the screen to see four coordinates were downloaded. "Come on, can't fate play different and just give me more than four?" I asked before sighing and taking the drive.

"Clearly fate doesn't like you." Knockout's voice said behind me and I looked to see the doc 'Con had unfrozen and turned his servo into a drill. "Now, say 'ahhh'"

I smirked. "How about you?" I transformed my right arm into a Path Blaster and blasted Knockout in the optic.

"Ahhh!" Knockout screamed. I took the chance to jump down and bolted for the groundbridge, jumping in and it closed behind me.

"The download of the Iacon database may have been incomplete,but we now possess four sets of coordinates decoded by the ship." Ratchet said once I had brought the drive back and shown what it had downloaded thus far.

"Then," Optimus started. "we must act quickly, for Megatron possess the same four sets. And, he will not hesitate to obtain the potential doomsday devises which lay at the sight of each..."

And that's it for this chapter folks. Hope you all enjoyed it.