AN: Before we kick this off I'd like to answer a few reviewers. First off

TheHeroOfAkatosh: I agree Transformers Prime is definitely one of the best Transformers series to date. Thanks for the story suggestions I just might consider putting a bit of thought into one of those, and don't worry, you'll be seeing a few more Bots and Cons soon enough, starting with this chapter.

Lone Gundam: Oh believe me pal, Z.A.F.T. won't be the only ones kicking themselves for being stupid enough to ally themselves with Decepticons. I won't say anything more beyond that, but then again maybe I've already said to much on that topic.

Alright now that that's been said...I don't own anything in either the Gundam or Transformers franchises or anything else that is mentioned in this story that is not an OC or something else like that.

Chapter 3: The Last Prime

After boarding the Vesalius with Dreadwing, Athrun, and Le Creuset leading the way, Megatron listened to what Le Creuset thought that Z.A.F.T. could do for the Decepticons. At first Megatron was skeptical to accepting aid from the humans with altered genetics, or Coordinators as they called themselves, but when he heard about how Dreadwing had encountered the Autobot Scout Bumblebee fighting alongside the Earth Forces mobile suit known as the Strike, and had seen more of what the mobile suits could do, the Decepticon war lord could not deny that his interest was piqued.

"Very well Commander Le Creuset," Megatron told the masked man in his low menacing voice. "I will meet with your PLANT Supreme Chairman and the Vice Chairman Patrick Zala to discuss the terms of a possible Z.A.F.T.-Decepticon alliance."

"Excellent Megatron, or do you prefer Lord Megatron," Le Creuset asked for clarification.

"Lord Megatron if you please," Megatron growled.

"Of course, my apologies. I just wanted to be sure," the masked commander replied in a smooth voice.

Megatron nodded and gave a small dark smile to the man. There was something about this masked man in the white Z.A.F.T. uniform that the Decepticon leader liked. He could not be sure what it was, but it was definitely something interesting, something that gave off a feeling that Le Creuset was a man that would enjoy seeing the world burn if given the chance.

Watching from around the corner in secret with a worried look was Lacus Clyne. While she was somewhat comfortable around Dreadwing, there was something unsettling about Megatron that made even the pink songstress frightened about someone's future. His overall appearance was frightening to her alone, but the most frightening thing was his eyes. The purple glow that Megatron's eyes gave off seemed unnatural, demonic, as though there was something unearthly and deadly within in them, almost as though they were the eyes of the devil himself.

She was so frightened by the sight of Megatron and his eyes that she did not hear the pink Haro shout out Athrun's name as he came around the corner, until Athrun walked up with the spherical robot in hand groaning, "Lacus you were supposed to stay in your room until we could get you transport back to the PLANT."

When Lacus jumped a little, Athrun could see that his arranged fiancé had a scared look in her eyes, something that seemed alien, foreign, and out of place on the normally cheerful, and ever hopeful pink songstress. He looked off in the direction she was looking in before and saw that Megatron was in the possible line of sight of the songstress. "He scares even you a bit does he," Athrun asked.

Lacus could do nothing more than nod in reply as her gaze briefly drifted back to the previously mentioned warlord. Athrun placed an arm around her in a comforting gesture to help alleviate some of her worry, but he could not deny there was something about Megatron that had him worried as well.

"It is mostly something in his eyes," Lacus finally told Athrun. "There's something about them that seems like pure evil."

Athrun looked at Lacus in surprise for a moment. It was not like her to speak about anyone in a way like that, so that meant that there was definitely something about Megatron that frightened her a great deal. As Athrun ran Lacus's words through his head, he could not deny that he found the large fusion cannon wielding Decepticon had something about the mere casual look in his eyes that was unsettling.

Sometime later, a transport had arrived that would take Lacus back to the PLANTs along with a report about the Decepticons, who would be following along behind to meet with Patrick Zala and Lacus's father. Lacus turned and gave Athrun a few special parting words that Athrun would remember for a long time to come. "What is it one should be fighting against? War makes that question very difficult."

Athrun looked at Lacus with a sad expression to indicate that he somewhat understood that. With that Lacus bade Athrun goodbye with a wish of seeing him again soon, and boarded the ship that would return to the PLANTs. Athrun watched as he heard Megatron give a command to Dreadwing that was followed by the two assuming their alt. modes, Megatron's being a large Cybertronian fighter jet, and flew off after the ship.

Not long after, both the Decepticons and the ship arrived at the PLANTs capital, Aprillius, where both Siegel Clyne and Patrick Zala were waiting. Siegel for his daughter, and Patrick Zala for the Decepticons. As soon as the two jets assumed their massive Cybertronian robot forms, neither one of the members of the PLANT supreme council could believe their eyes, but while Siegel was somewhat frightened by the appearance of the two massive aliens, Patrick Zala merely smirked in barely restrained excitement at what these two alone could do for Z.A.F.T.

"Supreme Chairman Clyne, Vice Chairman Zala," Megatron spoke. "I am Lord Megatron of the Decepticons. It is a pleasure to finally meet you both."

"Likewise Lord Megatron," Patrick Zala replied. "We have much to discuss, but first and foremost, how fierce of a force of warriors would you consider yourself."

Dreadwing was about to protest when Megatron raised a hand to silence him. "It is alright Dreadwing, after all they do not know anything about us or even our world so they cannot be expected to know what we would consider common knowledge," the Decepticon warlord said. He then turned back to the two PLANT leaders as he explained, "Before our home world, Cybertron, had found itself consumed in our war with the Autobots, I was a fierce gladiator in the gladiator arena of the now Decepticon capital city, Kaon. It was there in that arena that I proved my metal as a warrior, and my ability to lead."

While Siegel was concerned with the idea of this large metal titan having proved his ability to lead in a gladiator arena, being a man who hated war and longed for an age of peace, Patrick found this to be quite impressive, if his smirk was anything to go by. "Well then Lord Megatron," Zala then said, "I believe that an alliance between our two nations will be quite beneficial to both of us. Welcome to the PLANTs."

Megatron smirked in reply to Patrick Zala's proclamation. "Thank you both, and as a show of good faith, I would like to dispatch a squadron of Decepticons lead by my second in command to assist your forces on Earth."

"Then might I ask that you send them to Northern Africa," Zala inquired. When both Siegel and Megatron looked at him with curiosity he clarified saying, "There is a plan in motion to either bring down the Earth Forces Legged Ship or forced them into our territory as they descend to Earth where one of our most loyal and fiercest of soldiers, known by the nickname of the Desert Tiger, will be waiting ready with an ambush."

Megatron smirked at this information. "Very well then. It would be my pleasure. Dreadwing," Megatron said as he turned to the loyal soldier, "Contact Soundwave and tell him of the orders to send to Starscream and the team he has gathered on the surface."

"Yes Lord Megatron," Dreadwing replied and then he moved to leave and contact the Decepticon communication specialist of the new development.

When Kira and Bumblebee returned to the ship, Kira had to face a small trial headed up by Murrue with Mu acting as his lawyer. Though going against Military regulations like Kira and Bumblebee had done would have meant the death penalty, since Kira was not an official member of the military and technically he was simply returning a rescued civilian to someone who could take her home there was nothing they could do, much to the prosecutor's, Natarle Badgiruel, ire. In the case of Bumblebee, well there was really nothing they could do in his case either since he was neither a part of their military nor even from their world. As such, both Autobot and Coordinator were let off with a warning.

A short while later, the Archangel rendezvoused with the Eighth Fleet after which, Kira and his friends were made official members of the military since officially they could not volunteer to help on the ship otherwise, and though they were given the chance to leave, they all chose otherwise. This decision was made after they all learned that Flay had decided to officially enlist herself. Though she claimed it was so she could honor her father's memory, what no one knew was that she had decided this as a way to keep Kira aboard the Archangel make sure he would keep fighting until every last Coordinator was dead.

In the case of Bumblebee, Admiral Halberton, the commander of the Eighth fleet, was surprised at first to say the least, but gave a hearty laugh as he got to know the young Autobot scout, with Kira translating for him of course. They all then learned from Bumblebee that there was a likely chance that the other Autobots were on Earth, so since the Archangel was already going to be headed down to Earth herself, it was decided that Bumblebee remain with the ship. With everything now having been said and done, the Archangel moved to descend to Earth, but found herself in battle once more alongside the Eighth Fleet against the Le Creuset team.

Though Bumblebee did not participate in this battle due to the absence of the Decepticons, Kira and Mu both launched to face the Buster, and an upgraded version of the Duel. The battle became fierce and Kira was not able to return to the ship in time, which forced the Archangel to pull up beneath him and end up off course and land in Z.A.F.T. territory, in the middle of northern Africa. Kira was now recovered after having passed out from the heat he endured when passing through the atmosphere, but he was racked with guilt over not being able to save a shuttle of civilians that was headed for Orb from being destroyed by the Duel. Seeing this Flay pretended to care enough to comfort him and the two ended up spending the night together.

Bumblebee on the other hand, though he could not see what was happening, knew exactly what Flay was doing and was seriously considering ignoring Optimus Prime's rule about not harming native life forms of an alien world, which had been set as soon as the Autobots began leaving Cybertron, and blasting the red haired girl with a fully charged blast from his guns. Knowing that these thoughts were going through his processor, he stepped outside the ship to clear his head. As he gazed out at the stars in the sky, Bumblebee could not help but be reminded of the nights on Cybertron during the war when he could not sleep and simply watched the stars to calm his nerves, but at the same time, he found himself wishing that he knew where the other Autobots were, or at the very least, where their commander was now.

Bumblebee did not know how long he sat out there under the desert night sky, but sometime after he had begun watching the stars, he heard a sound that he could never mistake for anything else, the distinct sound of missiles flying through the air and getting closer. Immediately he raced back into the Archangel and let out the loudest series of beeps and trills he could manage to wake up as many people as he could when the ship suddenly shook under the force of the blows of the missiles' impact.

Everyone rushed to their stations, and in the hangar, Bumblebee saw Kira racing for the Strike, with a new fire of determination in his eyes. Bumblebee may not like how that determination got there, but he was glad to see that Kira was still willing to fight to protect those he cared about. He could have cared more for the tone Kira used when he demanded to launch in the Strike however.

As soon as Kira had launched it was obvious he was at a disadvantage. The Strike isn't meant for combat in the desert, Kira thought to himself, as he struggled to keep the Strike standing stable on the grainy surface of the desert sand. Working fast while doing what he could to keep up with his opponents, who were piloting BuCUES, Kira was able to reprogram the Strike's OS so that it would be able to handle the desert combat situation and still use the Launcher Striker pack's long range Agni gun to fight back and even things up.

Watching from a distance was the Z.A.F.T. soldier Andrew Waltfeld, the Desert Tiger. He watched in amusement at first as the "Legged Ship", as Z.A.F.T. had come to call it, and its mobile suit, the Strike, had struggled, but that amusement soon turned into intrigue and amazement when he saw how the Strike was able to quickly adapt to handle its current situation. While that all may have been true, he knew that they had to turn the tide of this battle back into his favor. He turned to his "ally" and said, "Well now's your chance if you want to show what you're made of."

"With pleasure," Commented the large, slim, silver robot with dark grey shoulders, a pair of wings on his back that extended upward in a v-shape and orange-red eyes. "I cannot begin to understand how Dreadwing could possibly fail to defeat a single human ship with only one of these 'mobile suits' as you call them, but I can assure you, we shall not have that problem. Decepticons take to the skies and annihilate the enemy ship!"

"Yes Commander Starscream," answered two other Decepticons who looked exactly like Starscream except for their colors, one of which was dark blue and red in other areas and the other was purple and black, a large blue and silver robot that seemed to turn into a ground type vehicle with dark gold eyes, and a few other Decepticon drones all of which had a single red visor, and were colored black and silver.

Immediately, all the flyers took to the skies and fired on the Archangel and the Strike. The tide of battle began to flow back to the enemy's side as the Decepticons gave the Z.A.F.T. forces a major advantage, and the Strike was overpowered. Eventually, Bumblebee could no longer sit around on the ship and launched into battle as well. Sadly, Bumblebee's vehicle mode was no help to him in the desert, as his wheels did nothing more than spin in the sand, so he transformed to his bipedal mode and opened fire on the Decepticons.

"Well, well the Autobot Scout Bumblebee," Starscream mused. "That would explain Dreadwing's failure, but I will be sure to rectify his mistake of not ending the scout while he was wounded. Breakdown, finish him."

"With pleasure," the blue and silver, red faced ground type Con replied. He then switched his right hand into a hammer and charged Bumblebee, slamming his hammer arm into the scout as soon as he was close enough.

Bumblebee was sent to the ground upon impact, but quickly rolled to the side to avoid the follow-up hit and shot Breakdown at point blank sending the larger Decepticon flying. Breakdown growled a bit and then got up and charged the scout as he was bombarded by the other seekers and flyers. Connecting another hit to Bumblebee's stomach with his fist, Breakdown hit Bumblebee twice more with his hammer before his third hit sent Bumblebee to the ground again. This time when the scout tried to stand or at least rise up, he was stopped as Starscream landed and pinned him down with his foot. "Prepare to join the AllSpark scout," the Decepticon sky commander told Bumblebee as he leveled his left arm with missiles mounted on top right with Bumblebee's optics.

"Bumblebee," Kira shouted when he saw his Autobot friend was in trouble. He wanted to do something to help him, but there was nothing he could do as he was surrounded and being bombarded by the Decepticon flyers. That soon became less of a problem when one of them was hit by a missile from the distance. Kira and everyone else turned to see a small force of military jeeps rolling across the desert and trying to clear out both the Z.A.F.T. attack choppers and the Decepticon flyers, the former being easier than the latter. Starscream and the other Cons showed little concern for this as one jeep pulled up by the Strike's leg and one of its passengers told Kira to lead them to a trap that this resistance force had set up, but now both the Strike and the jeep were surrounded.

Starscream smirked at what he believed to be an easy victory, when he heard the sound of a horn blaring. He turned to the source and saw a large, long nose red and blue truck racing across the desert towards the battle smashing into Decepticon drones on the ground as it went. Just when the Cons began to open fire, the truck seemed to launch itself into the air and transformed into a large red and blue robot, with broad shoulders, and a blue helmet with a face guard over the lower half of his face beneath electric blue eyes. The large titan slammed its fist into a Decepticon drone as he landed on the ground and changed his right fist into a blaster and opened fire on the Decepticons. As he ceased firing for a moment, he shouted out three words that Bumblebee was all too familiar with, and which would echo throughout the rest of human history. "Autobots roll out!"

"What?! No," Starscream shouted. "Optimus Prime!"

Bumblebee let out a trill of excitement indicating he was cheering as he slammed a fist into Starscream's leg tripping him up before Bumblebee then slammed his fist into the seeker's gut. Kira could only stare in amazement for a moment along with a number of the other human combatants and observers at the sight as he whispered, "That's…another Autobot…"

With Optimus Prime joining the battle, the Strike and the jeep that had pulled up beside it were able to easily break through the enemy lines and lured both the Z.A.F.T. BaCUES and a number of Decepticon drones into the trap that had been sent, and as soon as all the friendly forces were cleared, the trap of explosives went off taking them all out. Starscream snarled from the air in his jet mode, and then ordered, "All Decepticons pull back. Skywarp, contact Lord Megatron and inform him that we have confirmed the Legged Ship has allied itself with the Autobots. Oh and be sure to mention…Optimus Prime is back."

A short while later after all the Decepticons and Z.A.F.T. troops had pulled back, the Strike's phase shift armor powered down changing into its dull grey color while Optimus simply walked up to the Strike and Bumblebee, who speed-walked up to the large red and blue robot. Bumblebee let out his typical series of beeps as if asking if it was really him. The large robot retracted his battle mask and gave the scout a small, yet soft smile as he said, "Hello old friend. It warms my spark to see you still function."

If it were possible for Transformers to cry, Bumblebee would be shedding tears of joy right then as he gave his leader and father figure a quick hug, which Optimus returned happily. Optimus then asked Bumblebee to tell him what had happened while gazing for a moment at the Strike, all while the sun rose in the distance. While the scout gave his report to the Autobot leader, a young blond haired girl with fiery gold colored eyes, in a tomboy style outfit of a red short sleeved t-shirt, tan cargo jeans, and a dark green vest stared angrily at the Strike for a moment before turning to stare at the two Autobots as she thought to herself, What are these two machines? Are they more of my father's betrayal or something else entirely?

AN: In case it has not been made clear by now, there will be quite a bit of bashing on one Natarle Badgiruel for some time. But really can ya blame me? The woman was a total witch for a majority of the series until the last few episodes. Now that that's been said...YEAH! The greatest hero of Cybertron and the universe's greatest champion of freedom and peace, Optimus Prime is here! Give him a grand round of applause!...Sorry I'm a big Optimus fan so I just had to let that out. Moving on...

The Archangel meets with the Desert Dawn and Kira discovers more about the young woman he met in Morgenroete before he became the pilot of the Strike. Both the crew and the Desert Dawn discover the identity of the large red and blue titan that saved them, and shortly after they learn of others that had been among the Desert Dawn without the guerrilla fighters knowing it. Next time on Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Prime...Autobots Assemble. Witness the reunion of Cybertron's mightiest team of warriors for peace Gundam!

See you next time. Read and review please