They arrived at Iacon. They walked through the loading hatch. Megatron, Skywarp and Thundercracker were waiting. The two prisoners walked up to them.
"You're dead." Thundercracker said.
"No kidding." Shortstop replied.
"So you happened to survive the attack. Pity. You're going to wish that you died." Megatron said.
They two enemies stood inches from each other. Megatron being the taller one by at least a foot. He turned to Prowl, who was being quiet.
"Now what are we going to do about Prowl? Before the war you were a goods merchant with your twin Bluestreak. Now he's head of security for the Autobots. You could have joined the Decepticons and could have been on the winning side. Why didn't you join?"
"I wanted to be free and have peace."
"BAH, Peace through tyranny." Megatron shot back. "Take them away."
The Decepticon soldiers escorted the Autobots to their cells. They put them in separate cells one next to the other. Prowl sat down on the ledge that stuck out of the metal wall. Shortstop paced around in his. He wanted to get Sarah down here but he didn't know how. Just then the door to his cell opened. Skywarp had escorted Sarah to him. She stood there with her arms crossed, looking at him, disgusted by him. She didn't want to see him but Skywarp insisted she would so that he could get pleasure out of seeing Shortstop in torment. But while she was down here she might as well see what he wanted. She turned to Skywarp.
"Leave us."
"What? And miss this exciting event?"
"You heard her." Shortstop said in a low maniacal voice.
"If you need any one to beat him into submission, don't hesitate to call."
Skywarp walked out the door and closed it behind him. He posted Ramjet and Dirge at the door. Sarah turned back to Shortstop. Shortstop's head flew off and transformed into Dustin's exosuit form the body transformed into vehicle mode. The cell was actually big enough to fit a car of that size without problem. Dustin's armor slid off of his body. He came up to her. She still looked as the day he first laid eyes on her. She looked at him impatiently.
"Skywarp said you wanted to see me. Well I'm here. What do you want?"
"I wanted to talk."
"Really? You didn't seem interested when we were married."
"I made a lot of mistakes back then."
Save the apologies Dustin. They're not going to work. You are without a doubt, the most insensitive, self-absorbed, egotistical...
"You've made your point."
"I doubt it. You never listened before. You were always trying to impress every woman who crossed your path."
"Were there really that many?"
"And if it wasn't women it was that damn transformer of yours. Sometimes I think that was the only thing you ever loved."
"Maybe I loved you both."
"Then why did you leave me to run off to play pirate to Megatron?"
"That's a good question."
"Do you know how many deaths you've caused? How much destruction?"
"I'm fighting to free the Autobots."
"You're fighting because you like to fight, Dustin."
"I just hope that your captivity will bring an end to this senseless fighting.
"Who said I was captured?"
"Oh, and I suppose you just came here to see me?"
"Actually I came here to rescue you."
"Rescue me?"
"Yeah I came to get you out of here so that you wouldn't finish the sensor array. If you finish the array not only will they kill off the Autobots, they will kill you as well."