Author's Note: Someone asked if I'll be following the canon plot of TF:P and to answer your question, I'll be mixing it up, really. Ok guys, here's the chapter you've all been waiting for…

Or is it!?

Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers or any of its characters. Keira Grayson is mine.

As red lights started flashing in the room and the grating alarm sound reached Keira's ears, she looked to the only other occupant in the room.

"I don't suppose you'd know what to do in a situation like this?"

And just like his master, Laserbeak remained silent; which only pissed Keira off. But before she tried anything against the metallic avian, Laserbeak hovered even closer to her and started playing an audio recording.

'That doesn't make any sense.' she recognized the voice as Knock Out's. 'Our cloaking system is supposed to be online. How did the Autobots find us?'

It then dawned on Keira that Laserbeak was streaming sound from the med-bay, probably since he was somehow linked to his master.

The next voice she heard belonged to Starscream. 'We'll figure that out later. Right now, we need this ship on high alert. Knock Out, assemble the troops to the top of the Nemesis and be ready for the Autobots. Soundwave, head to the command center, we'll need a ground bridge when the opportune moment arrives.'

'You mean we plan on running?'

'A retreat, dear doctor. And I'm only saving that option as a last resort. The Autobots may have the element of surprise, but we have the numbers. If all goes well, I might even be able to do the one thing Megatron never did.'

'Run?'

'Retreat, Knock Out! And no; I meant I would be the one to terminate Optimus Prime.'

Keira swore she heard someone chuckle.

Starscream scowled. 'Let's go. We'll have to decide on our master's fate some other time.'

Laserbeak backed away, signaling the end of the feed. He 'stared' at Keira almost expectantly.

"So while everyone's busy with these Autobots, we can head to the med-bay." she said.

Her companion did nothing but continue hovering.

Keira simply smiled. "Well, lead the way."

Laserbeak flew past her, heading for the door. Keira followed, not daring to take her eyes off of him.

She clutched the dark energon tighter.

Almost there, big guy.

And as she started moving even faster, not wanting to lose Laserbeak, she was thankful that amidst the chaos, the Vehicons were too busy to notice a human female running around trailing Soundwave's pet.

But she wasn't aware that, lurking in one of the many corridors of the Nemesis, someone did.

Keira slowed her breathing once she and Laserbeak reached the med-bay. On the way, too focused on Laserbeak, she didn't notice one of the Vehicons moving towards her. She narrowly missed being crushed under his pede.

And I don't think I've ever ran that fast before.

When her breathing returned to normal, she looked around for her guide, who perched himself on top of the monitor Knock Out always paid attention to. The small robot tilted his body towards the Decepticon leader, gesturing for her to get on with it. Keira glanced at the dark energon in her hand before moving.

She had forgotten how high the slab was. She pouted then turned to her companion. "Laserbeak, a little help here?"

Said 'bot then hovered beside the human female, who then grabbed on to him with one hand while still holding the energon in the other. Laserbeak flew upwards and Keira let go once her feet touched Megatron's chest.

But then she paused and realized…

She never asked Soundwave what she actually had to do with the dark energon. She let out a frustrated yell.

"Damn it! Sometimes I can be so-"

'Spark'

Keira froze. "What?"

'Spark'

She looked at Laserbeak, thinking he was the one who had spoken, but the small Decepticon was busy staring at the monitor.

He can't hear it?

She tried figuring out whose voice that belonged to, but she couldn't name anyone. The voice seemed so commanding, intimidating, and she had to admit, it was kind of attractive.

Shaking that thought away, she concentrated on what she knew about sparks from what Knock Out told her. She remembered they were almost like what hearts were to humans, but they were more than that, they were the very life force of Cybertronians.

Then she looked at the hole in Megatron's chest, the tube connected to it had been removed. She looked at the energon in her hand, then back to where Megatron's spark chamber would be, if she remembered correctly.

It's worth a shot

She moved towards the hole. Once she was close enough, she saw a small flickering light inside. And, holding her breath she raised the dark energon in her hand and-

"Stop!"

Caught red-handed, she did as she was told. Keira turned towards the med-bay doors and saw another robot. But this one was different, with blue optics, and blue coloring. But what really surprised her was that this one looked rather feminine. And judging by her voice, she probably was.

The newcomer raised a servo. "What are you doing?"

"Waking the big guy up."

The look she received from the new 'bot was one of horror and confusion. "But why?"

"Isn't that why I'm here? Knock Out told you why I'm here, right?"

The blue femme crossed her arms. "Why would Knock Out…? Look, that doesn't matter. I'm here to get you out of here. I saw you running and followed you. It's a good thing the Decepticons didn't spot you. You did good by sending us the warship's coordinates."

Keira blinked once, twice. "What? I don't… Wait, you're not a Decepticon? Then you must be an-"

"Autobot, yes. The name's Arcee."

"And you think I'm the one who led you here?"

She shrugged. "We received a coded anonymous message back at our base. It had nothing but coordinates in it. When we found out it was for the location of the Nemesis, we didn't know what to expect. But it must have been you trying to get help, they captured you didn't they?"

Keira was both flustered and annoyed. "Yes, no. I mean, yes I was captured but I wasn't the one who sent the coordinates. Now go away, find whoever did it or something. I'm busy."

Arcee scoffed. "Are you kidding me? There's no way I'm letting you bring Megatron back. In fact, maybe I can end him myself."

Keira's eyes widened, fear suddenly taking over. "No, you can't!"

Arcee's servos changed into blasters. "And why not?"

The human female paused before answering. "You wouldn't understand."

"Look, I don't know what the Decepticons did to brainwash you but you'll thank me for this later." Keira heard Arcee's weapons power up.

With no other options, she shouted, "Laserbeak do something!"

And thankfully, the small Decepticon moved and started firing at Arcee, who then missed her shot and dodged the bird bot's attacks. "Scrap!" Keira heard Arcee shout.

Keira smiled, but remembered her real task and turned back to Megatron, not knowing how long Arcee would be kept distracted.

"Time to wake up, Megatron. You need to kick some Autobot aft."

And she plunged the dark energon into his spark.

To her it was as if time stood still as she backed away and hopped off of the tyrant, waiting for something to happen. She could feel her heart beat faster now, her hands still shaking, the one that had held on to the energon started twitching.

She waited, focusing solely on the Decepticon leader, the sounds of the battle happening behind her and the constant ringing of the alarm fading.

Then his optics went online.

When Megatron woke up, the first thing he saw was the Autobot femme from Prime's team fire at Laserbeak. And when the warlord stood up, both her and her opponent stopped fighting.

"No." he heard the femme say.

The battle had alerted some of his troops and soon, three Vehicons entered the med-bay.

"What's going- lord Megatron!" one said.

They bowed as soon as they saw their leader standing tall. Laserbeak flew towards him and the tyrant allowed Soundwave's loyal pet to perch on his arm.

"Decepticons, your rightful master has returned."

Their cheers drowned out the sound of the alarm.

He didn't mind the fact that the Autobot femme started fleeing or that his troops were too busy celebrating his awakening to notice her. Before anything else, he had a pest to exterminate. "Where's Starscream?"

"Outside, my liege. Battling the Autobots." one of the Vehicons replied, still kneeling down like the others.

As he looked down at his troops, as if acknowledging them for the first time, he spotted a human female.

A human. And the Autobot had left her.

The fleshling stared at him with wide eyes. But it wasn't fear he saw in them, it was something different, something he didn't want to name. The tyrant filed the look the female gave him as shock, for now. There were more important things he needed to attend to then reading human emotions.

He turned to Laserbeak. "Go to your master and tell him of my return." Laserbeak flew away to carry out his task, though Megatron knew that Soundwave would no doubt already be aware of everything that transpired.

"I'll be busy restoring order to the chain of command."

And with that, the Decepticon leader left the med-bay thinking which one of Starscream's limbs would he rip off.

He didn't even stop to question the smile the human gave him.

Keira stared after Megatron as he left. She hadn't taken her eyes off of him ever since he woke up. As soon as she saw his optics, she was entranced by him. Already, she felt how strong and intimidating the Decepticon leader was. And when he got up off the slab, she felt the whole room shake from his very presence, as if the walls acknowledged and feared his return.

Then she heard his voice. It was familiar to her, but with everything that was happening, she couldn't think of anything other than the being that was standing in front of her. She couldn't help the smile that formed on her lips.

"The human actually did it." a voice snapped Keira out of her thoughts. The smile disappeared, and with Megatron gone to find Starscream, she was left with the Vehicons.

"Yeah, now WX-738021 owes me half of the energon he mined." another one said.

"Wait, he promised me the same thing." Vehicon number three chimed in.

"Scrap, we're just going to have to shoot him and divide the energon between us, then."

"Deal."

That's when Vehicon number one noticed Keira. He tapped Vehicon number two on the shoulder. "What do we do about the human? You know, now that she's done her job?"

Number two shrugged. "How should I know? We kill her probably."

Keira went pale.

"Megatron didn't say to kill her."

This time it was the third Vehicon who spoke. "He didn't say to keep her functioning, either."

Silence passed over the four in the med-bay; silence that was currently keeping Keira alive for the moment.

Then Vehicon number two spoke up. "Well, if the boss didn't say anything, maybe we should-"

"You should leave her alone and get back to work." All four turned to look at the the owner of the voice, it was Breakdown.

The three Vehicons stood up straight as the huge Decepticon continued speaking from his place by the door. "If you haven't noticed, there's an Autobot running around the warship. So get going."

"Yes, sir!" was the collective answer as all three quickly passed by the human female and the big Decepticon.

Once the door shut, Breakdown looked at Keira, who then said, "You're going to kill me, aren't you? Make sure that I don't tell other humans about your presence here by silencing me forever."

Breakdown sighed. "Calm down, human. I'm not here to kill you. I was looking for you; when the attack started, instead of joining the battle outside, Knock Out told me to go look for you, he thought you'd freak out from the noise and do something stupid."

He then looked at the empty slab where his leader no longer was on, then back at the female. "Once again, he was right. But what you did wasn't stupid… Ok, it was; leaving your quarters by yourself, but hey, at least something good came out of it all."

Keira allowed herself to smile. "Yeah, I guess."

"You know where Megatron is now?"

She shrugged. "Probably wherever Starscream is."

"Ah."

Keira nodded. "Yeah."

Silence.

Then, "You did good, you know, for a puny fleshling. Things would've fallen apart if Starscream continued to assume command." Breakdown said.

"Just doing what you guys captured me for."

"Yeah. Well anyways, what's done is done, back to your quarters then." Breakdown was already heading for the door.

Keira tilted her head in confusion. "What about the Autobots? That Arcee could still be here."

Breakdown waved her off. "It'll be over soon, now that Megatron's back and after our dear Air Commander. Starscream's the one leading the assault and if he's gone, the others will follow. And as for Arcee, she leapt off the warship and called for a ground bridge."

"So, those Vehicons you talked to earlier…"

"I needed to get rid of 'em. Now let's go." Breakdown jerked his head, gesturing for her to walk with him, instead of being carried in his servo.

Keira, grateful to be alive longer, followed him.

And as the two walked along the dark hallways of the Nemesis, it was then that they heard a scream.

"MASTER! NOOO!"

Keira shivered at the sound of terror that echoed around. She looked up at Breakdown. "Was that-"

"-Starscream living up to his designation."

When Megatron left his second-in-command in the med-bay, hooked up to more tubes than he was, he smirked. Order in the ranks was restored, the Autobots knew of his return, and soon everything else would be back to the way it was supposed to be.

But his next trip to the command center would prove that such would not be the case.

The tyrant entered and took his place in the middle of the huge room, scanning the monitors for updates, and anything that he missed in his absence. As always, Soundwave was at his terminal, dutifully monitoring everything and everyone.

"Good to see you back on your pedes, my liege." Megatron recognized the voice as Knock Out's. With one last look at a report from Soundwave, the former gladiator turned around to face the smaller mech.

"No doubt you've come here to gloat about your success in bringing me back, in the hopes that I would reward you." then he narrowed his optics. "But don't think that I'll allow you to use my dark energon again."

"Well I… oh, beg your pardon, my lord? Again? I'm afraid I haven't even seen, let alone touched your supply of dark energon."

Megatron raised an optic ridge subtly, not allowing Knock Out to catch him surprised by this. "Then someone else, perhaps. It was only when dark energon was plunged into my very spark was I able to return. So who is responsible?"

The warlord caught Knock Out glancing at Soundwave, who had paused in his typing to witness the exchange. "Soundwave?" the tyrant asked.

The Decepticon Communications Officer, shook his head, a reply he rarely gave his leader. "It wasn't you, but I'm quite sure you know who it was, nothing escapes you, Soundwave. So who was it?"

There was a pause before Soundwave's visor flickered as Megatron had seen many times before and knew that it was a cue that his loyal officer was about to bring up footage to supply as an answer.

It was then that Megatron saw that it was the human female from before who had plunged a shard of his dark energon into his spark chamber. The warlord watched as the female hopped off his chassis and stepped back, not minding the battle happening far from her.

Then Soundwave stopped the video.

Just like when he was trapped in his own mind, Megatron went over the possible explanations. And now it was to explain why an organic had helped him. Option one, she had done it of her own free will. Two, his troops found someone who knew of Cybertronian anatomy. Three, they brainwashed her to do their bidding. And for all three options, his presumed his Decepticons kidnapped her.

But why had the Autobot femme left her behind?

"What is the girl's purpose here?" Megatron finally asked, turning back to Knock Out.

"Soundwave ordered me to find a human to assist me in repairing you; I chose this once since I've seen the kind of work she's done. I was planning on operating on your very spark chamber, my liege and needed someone small enough to help me with such a delicate procedure."

"And?"

Knock Out shrugged. "And nothing, lord Megatron. We never went through with it, the girl figured out how to bring you back before we even started." Then the medic placed one claw under his chin. "Though how she was able to acquire this information is still a mystery."

Megatron raised an optic ridge. "And where is she now?"

"Breakdown escorted her back to her quarters. I believe she's eating the humans' disgusting excuse for food I supplied her with."

"See to it that she is brought to the command center. I wish to speak with her."

Knock Out nodded, then tapped the side of his head. "Breakdown, our liege wants to speak with the human girl. Bring her to the command center once she's done eating; we wouldn't want her fainting anytime soon."

It was only when the doors of the command center opened that Megatron tore his attention away from his terminal. With his servos behind his back and his posture straight, the warlord knew how intimidating he looked.

Breakdown entered first, giving a slight bow to his leader then moving to stand beside his partner. And that's when Megatron saw her again.

The human female trailed behind Breakdown, but stopped once she was in front of his leader.

Megatron watched her for any signs of fear, but just like before, he found nothing but her staring at him rather oddly.

He hid his confusion with a smirk. "Ah, there you are. I recognize you from earlier. So, what is the name of the human who has brought me back so I may continue to lead my army?"

Her voice was soft but he still heard her. "Keira Grayson, my liege."

Visions of him being trapped in his own mind suddenly plagued the Decepticon leader. Of him battling Autobots without rest and of a mysterious voice speaking to him, guiding him.

That's when Megatron realized that it was her. The one he has spoken to before but never saw. He knew it was her, he recognized the tone, and remembered the name.

And now she on the Nemesis, standing right in front of him. He had found her.

And he would get his answers.

Author's Note: Whew, ok, that was one of the longest chapters I've ever written. But now they've met officially so yay! I hope I did all right, next chapter, they'll be interacting a bit more ;) btw, I'll be busy for the next few days so I'm not sure if I'll be able to update as quickly. Anyways, please leave a review and tell me what you think! :D