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Magnia gazed sadly at Bumblebee, her sparkmate, her only chance in the galaxy for happiness. Looking at him kneeling there helpless, but yet still looking at her adoringly, she realized something.

The Decepticons may have been her family, but none of them cared for her except Knockout, Roulette, and maybe Megatron. Knockout and Roulette would understand so that left only Megaton...

Magnia sighed and lowered her blaster. "Please, Lord," she begged. "I will do anything you ask...but not that."

Optimus, Ratchet, and Bumblebee simultaneously breathed a sigh of relief as Megatron frowned, "You are certain of this decision?"

Magnia nodded, "Yes, my lord."

"Very well," Megatron stood silently for a moment before acting. He transformed his servo into a blade and slammed it into Bumblebee's chassis.

As both Optimus and Magnia cried out, Bumblebee's optics flickered out and he fell backwards, plunging lifelessly into the Omega Lock's energy field.

As Magnia sobbed, kneeling on the floor, Megatron approached her, sword at his side, and said calmly, "Magnia, you are relieved of your duties as a Decepticon."

Magnia glared up at him, her anguish seething into furious rage. "You can't fire me!" she screamed. "I quit!"

She tackled the larger bot who toppled over, caught off guard. He was surprised; his normally complacent daughter was now glaring at him, defying him. How dare she!

With a roar, Megatron picked Magnia up and hurled her across the room. She smashed into the side of the Omega Lock's structure near Optimus Prime. He had until this point been standing there, numbly staring at the spot where his son had last been, but Magnia's fight with Megatron startled him into action.

Optimus charged Megatron and smashed him backwards with a series of powerful, outraged blows.

It appeared Optimus was going to win until Megatron recovered the Dark Star Saber and used its wave attack to knock him off the side of the Omega Lock.

As the Prime clung to the side, Megatron refocused his attack on the traitorous Magnia. She was leaning against a wall, holding her shoulder which had broken again, due to the structure being weakened.

Megatron stormed over and knocked her to the ground. He slashed across her arm with the Dark Star Saber as she tried to roll away.

Her systems were warning her that her frame had sustained heavy damage as Megatron snarled.

"This is what becomes of traitors!" he raised the sword menacingly.

"Megatron!" a new voice called, and Megatron turned, only to be impaled by the Star Saber.

"You took my voice," Bumblebee said furiously. "You will never rob anyone, of anything ever again. Get away from Magnia!"

He shoved Megatron off the Star Saber, and the warlord stumbled backwards, a confused expression on his faceplates. As his own energon dripped from his spark, he tripped and fell off of the Omega Lock.

Magnia watched him fall, burning as he entered Earth's atmosphere, with both remorse and anger. She swayed on her peds and blacked out from energon loss.

Bumblebee caught her as she fell and turned back to the other Autobots. Ratchet helped Optimus up off the ledge, and his dim optics brightened when he saw Bumblebee.

"You're-you're alive," Optimus said happily. He would have hugged the yellow bot, but he was devotedly holding Magnia.

The remaining Decepticons scrambled to escape, except for Starscream who shrieked, "I will avenge you master!"

Shockwave grabbed the seeker and dragged him with him, "Starscream, do not be a fool."

Starscream resisted, but the bigger bot was too strong. He finally gave up and allowed himself to be dragged, shouting at Shockwave, "Curse you and your logic!"

With the Decepticons gone, Bumblebee's team stared at him in awe as he gently put Magnia down.

"Bumblebee..." Arcee began.

"Your voice..." Optimus said, amazed.

"My voice?" Bee frowned. "What are you g-" his optics widened, "My voice!"

He hugged a surprised Ratchet, "Ratchet! I have my pipes back!"

"Errhmm y-yes!" Ratchet grinned, "Yes, we noticed!"

Bee turned and looked worriedly at Magnia, "She needs help, Ratch."

"Of course," Ratchet nodded to Knockout who had entered a little while ago, along with Roulette and the other Autobots. "Care to help?"

Knockout glanced hesitantly at Optimus, who looked like he was about to blow a gasket. "What are the two of you doing?" he said furiously. "Since when do we aid or work alongside Decepticons?!"

Bee glanced at Ratchet, "You wanna go first?"

Ratchet sighed, "Optimus, Knockout helped me escape from imprisonment in Shockwave's laboratory, and he didn't tell the Decepticons my formula for synthetic energon. Without him, I would probably be dead. I also wouldn't have been able to radio you, so then Earth would have been cyberformed because you never would have found the Nemesis."

"We would have found it eventually..." Optimus grumbled.

Ratchet shook his helm, "Optimus, you know you wouldn't have. In return for these favors, Knockout and his bonded, Roulette, wish to join the Autobots."

"Wait, what?" Roulette looked, confused, at Knockout.

"I'll tell you later, dearest," Knockout muttered to Roulette, who crossed her arms and frowned, but was silent.

Optimus sighed, "Very well, but I will be watching them closely." He narrowed his optics at Bee, "Your turn."

"Optimus, she spared my life," Bee pleaded. "She attacked her own father for me."

"Megatron was her father?!" Optimus growled.

"Haha," Bulkhead chuckled. "The prince of the Autobots and the princess of the Decepticons."

Everyone just looked at him.

"What?" he muttered uncomfortably. "I thought it was funny."

Bee cringed, "He is-was-her adoptive father technically."

Ratchet quickly interceded, seeing that Optimus was growing angrier. "She also helped us destroy Darkmount," he pointed out. "Without her we wouldn't have even been able to get in."

"I refuse to have three Decepticons on my team at once," Optimus snapped.

Ratchet raised an optic ridge, "Well, either have three Decepticons or you'll lose one Autobot medic."

"And a scout as well," Bee added seriously.

Optimus appeared to calm down, "Fine. If the price of keeping the two bots I care about most with me is letting these miscreants on my team, then so be it."

Bee grinned happily and hugged Optimus, "Thank you."

He scooped Magnia up and reluctantly handed her to Ratchet, who took her to Knockout's Medbay, along with Knockout himself.

Smiling, Bumblebee commed Raf, :Hey Raf, think you can tear yourself away from your laptop for two minutes and come up here?:

:...Bee?:

:Yeah Raf?:

There was a shocked silence on the other end, :I'll- I'll be right there.:

Moments later a glowing blue ground bridge opened and Raf, Jack, Miko, June, and Agent Fowler stepped through.

Raf gazed up at his guardian in awe, "Bee can you-?"

"Yup," Bumblebee pumped his servos. "I can talk again, finally!"

Raf laughed at Bumblebee's antics while Optimus used the ship's controls to open a space bridge to Cybertron.

At the same time, Shockwave and Starscream reached the escape pods, to find there was only one left. Hastily, they crammed into it and ejected.

It wasn't long before Starscream began complaining, "Rrrgh, your elbow articulator is digging into my lateral flexor!"

"Do you intend to whine for the duration of the voyage?"

Meanwhile, Ratchet commed Optimus from the Medbay, :Prime, you can't just shoot the Omega Lock at Cybertron; the cybermatter contained in it is not enough to revitalize Cybertron. It was only enough to cyberform Earth.:

Optimus frowned, :Can you make more cybermatter?:

:Unfortunately, no. I never learned Shockwave's portion of the completed cybermatter formula.:

:What do you suggest we do then?: Optimus commed.

:Direct the ship to the Well of the Allspark. If you shoot the energy beam into Cybertron's core, it should restore the planet.:

:Thank you, Ratchet,: Optimus smiled. :It's good to have you back, old friend.:

:Yeah, yeah,: Ratchet muttered, embarrassed. :I don't know what you fools would do without me.:

Optimus grinned and steered the Nemesis towards the Well of The Allspark. The glowing blue beam struck Cybertron's core in a brilliant flash of light, and the planet was restored to a glowing, healthy blue.

All of the Cybertronians on the Nemesis breathed sigh of relief and happiness.

Their home was restored.