Ashley's POV

"I'll be right back. I'm just going to call Tracy," I say, turning around to leave the base.

"Why do you need to go outside for that?" Chase asks.

"We may talk about how this year's Friendaversary is officially the worst one on record," I reply as I walk over to the door.

"What is this, Friendaversary?" Koda asks.

"Today is the day Bobby, Tracy, and Ashley first met," Riley says.

I head outside and am about to dial Tracy's number when I see a silver jet fly up. It turns into Starscream.

"Starscream, you did something to Bobby, didn't you," I snap.

"Yes, I did, Ashley, or should I call you emerald dragon," Starscream says.

"How do you know my spy code name?" I ask.

"It was one of those small square boxes on the bobble Patricia gave Bobby," Starscream says.

"That bobble you refer to is a friendship bracelet, and the square box is called a bead," I snap.

"I don't understand why humans can be so attached to something trivial, but you will join Bobby and aid the Decepticon cause," Starscream says.

"Why would I do that?" I ask as I do a backflip to dodge Starscream's hand as he tries to snatch me off the sidewalk.

I see a ground bridge open out from the corner of my eye. Then a long tentacle comes out. It pins me to the ground, and I scream in pain as a sharp jolt of electricity flows through me.

"Why are young human adults so stubborn," Starscream chuckles.

The last thing I see before things fade to back is the tentacle dragging me into the bridge.

Ratchet's POV

Snowdrift comes through the bridge with Tracy and Ivan on her shoulder. She is holding a small container of energon in her left hand.

*How did you find them? They were supposed to be on the Nemesis,* Bumblebee says.

"Knockout hit us with electricity so we'd be unconscious long enough to sneak us off the ship," Tracy says.

"Knockout took Heart's Gleam and I to a forest where Snowdrift found us," Ivan adds.

"Heart's Gleam, when did Ivan give you that nickname?" Arcee asks.

"While we were on the Nemesis, we might have admitted our feelings for each other," Tracy replies, blushing.

"So can start calling the two of you Ivacy," Ricky says.

"No, Richard, you can not call us that. Besides, we are officially a couple till I'm okay with making it so," Tracy says.

"I already agree that I'd wait till Tracy was ready to take that step," Ivan says as he kisses Tracy on the cheek.

"We can discuss the current status of my love life later. Right now, we need to find out how we can Bobby back from the cons and break the Starscream's control over him," Tracy says.

"Whan you gave him that friendship bracelet he made you, it was able to break the spell," Ivan says.

"Ivan, that only worked for three seconds," Tracy says.

"But it still worked," Ricky says.

"Maybe you need something else that has an even stronger to break it," Wheeljack says.

"Wheeljack, I have a better question. What was Bobby doing with you in the first place?"

"Bobby was following his conscience," Wheeljack says.

"More like he was keeping the pact we made in fifth grade, of always having each other's backs no matter what," Tracy sighs, "Why did this have to happen today,"

"What is so important about today?" Snowdrift asks.

"Today, the day the three of you first met," Optimus says.

"Yes, and it like fate is telling me that make us meeting back then was a fluke, and we were never meant to be friends at all," Tracy says.

"Prime, we have a situation," Agent Fowler says as he walks in.

"What is it, Agent Fowler?" Optimus says.

"my colleges gave me a video they got from satellite surveillance taken a few moments ago," Fowler says.

He hands a flash drive to Raf, putting it into his laptop. Then puts the video on the big screen. He presses play, and we watch in horror as Starscream lands in front of the museum. Ashley tries to run away, but a ground bridge portal opens. One of Sounwave's arms comes out of pins Ashley to the ground, then shocks Ashley. It pulls her into the portal, then Starscream smirks as he walks into the portal, and it closes behind him.

"That's it, that high-heeled con has hurt my sister for the last time," Ricky snaps as his hand turns in a blaster as he walks over to the ground bridge.

Tracy stands up and jumps off Snwodirft's shoulder. When she lands, Tracy is in her Cybertronian form.

"Ricky, I know family is supposed to help each other," Tracy says as she grabs his wrist, "But, please don't go back to the Nemesis. It's bad enough I've lost my two best friends due to Starscream's mind control because I'm terrible at handling stressful situations. I don't want to lose my brother too.," Tracy continues as tears form in her eyes.

"Okay, sis, I won't go back to the ship, but can I at least beat the scrap out of him the next time we meet?" Ricky asks.

"Yes," Tracy says.

Then there was a flash of light, and the twins were in their human forms. Tracy takes a few deep breaths and tries to keep herself from crying.

"Do you have anything else that we could use to try to break the mind control spell over Bobby?" Wheeljack asks.

"I made a digital scrapbook with all the pictures our families took of us growing up. I saved them to a separate flash drive and was going to give it to them at our graduation party." Tracy says.

"Where are they?" Raf asks.

"In my purse inside a protective case in the inside zipper pocket, why?" Tracy says.

"Maybe we can use it to break the spell," Ricky says.

"Ricky, how can we do that? They are on a human-sized flash," Tracy says.

"We could copy it over onto the main computer and save it to a compatible transfer drive," I say, taking one out of the pile next to me.

"Ricky, I spent days working on those, if any of them get lost during the transfer," Tracy says.

"Why do the case have Blue Dragonfly, Yellow Fox, and Emerald Dragon on the lid," Raf asks.

"Those are the spy codes we came up with when we were 6," Tracy says.

"Who is Emerald Dragon?" Miko asks.

"That's Ashley," Tracy says.

Ashley's POV

I wake up and discover I'm chained to the ceiling. Starscream walks up to me; he slides a friendship bracelet on my right wrist. I get shocked by the static electricity jolt when it touched my skin.

"Do you know who Tracy is?" Starscream asks.

"No, Starscream," I reply.

"Good, you can let her down," Starscream says, gesturing to a purple robot standing in the doorway.

It shots a blast at the chain. Starscream catches me in mid-air and sneers at the robot.

"I need her unharmed, you fool," Starscream snaps, setting me down on the floor.