So there was a bit of a delay for this chapter, but I've been pretty busy irl, can't explain it really, so last chapter, Protoform sigma was revealed, big scary two headed dragon who remembers Blackwolf. Now it's Predacon vs. Dinobot, plus three Autobots. Now, if it dawns on anyone, this story IS inspired by an episode of Beast Wars, the episode is called 'Bad Spark', I just wanted to use the theme and feeling of the unknown for this.


Grimlock and Sigma roared, the sound was thunderous, the very ground shook from the sound waves of their primal roars. The two locked eyes, slowly circling each other, focusing on each others movements.

With a quick roar, Grimlock charged at Sigma, the Predacon growled and did the same, his two horned heads pointing forward. As they approached each other, Grimlock growled and began blasting fire to blind Sigma's field of vision.

The Predacon growled as the fire burned his faceplates, he backed away as he couldn't see past the flames. When the fire began to clear, Grimlock charged through the smoke and bit down on one of his heads, roughly shoving and pushing the Predacon to and fro, into trees, rocks, whatever was available to throw the Predacon into.

Optimus and Smokescreen began firing rapid blasts of energy at the Predacon whenever there was an opening and Grimlock wasn't in the way. Arcee was at the currently unconscious Blackwolf's side; Ratchet ran to her and the downed Prime.

Ratchet looked back at the violent battle happening behind them; Grimlock was in trouble as Sigma used his other head to begin biting Grimlock's neck or whatever was in his range. He brought up his long, sharp claws and began dragging them down Grimlock's sides, leaving several energon leaking gashes.

Grimlock roared in pain, losing his crushing grip on the Predacon's neck, Sigma now took the chance to begin rapidly clawing the Dinobot.

"Go! I'll look after him! Help Grimlock!" he ordered her. She sighed and activated her blasters. She ran to help Optimus and Smokescreen with blasting the Predacon while Grimlock kept him occupied.

Suddenly, the Predacon used his claw to leave a large gash on Grimlock's helm. The Dinobot roared before Sigma shoved him to the ground. Smokescreen and Arcee were shocked to see Sigma's wounds and body begin rapidly healing itself.

The once rapidly leaking wounds and gashes Grimlock had inflicted were sealing up; it made sense now why the Cons had made him to 'destroy armies'; he could heal rapidly.

Optimus growled, drawing the star saber and charged the Predacon. He leaped at Sigma and drove the sword into his back. Sigma roared in pain, before one head went back and threw the Prime off before pulling the sword from his torso. The blade fell to the ground as the new wound began healing again.

Optimus then saw that they were close to a cliff, they could use it. He activated his energon infused mini-gun and began firing at the Predacon. Sigma growled as the shots hit so quickly he couldn't keep up with them, he started slowly backing away as he couldn't see.

Smokescreen started shooting to aid the Prime, Arcee fell in line as well as they began shooting, hoping to throw the Predacon off the cliff. When Sigma's pedes grazed the edge of the cliff.

Grimlock changed to his normal form, he activated his energon-shield and slammed it into the Predacon's faceplate. Sigma fell back and off the cliff. They all, including Ratchet, looked over the edge, the downed Predacon seemed motionless...until sigma instantly flipped back over, onto his claws.

He suddenly began shifting, the two dragon heads moved around and the Predacon's whole body flipped around. It stopped when a new helm formed, Sigma had two menacingly curved optics, a pointed helm with two large spikes on the top of it. His large spikes pointed up on his back. His tails were connected to his back. He was as tall as Grimlock was. But what was scary was that his arms and servos were the Predacon's dragon heads.

He laughed as they were all shocked to see him just transform like it was normal for the Predacon.

He used the teeth of his dragon heads to begin climbing the rocks with ease, they didn't know how to stop it.

"It's unstoppable!" Arcee was astonished how this thing kept adapting to them.

"Your efforts: futile! I rise again!" his deep voice growled as he climbed closer.

Suddenly, a new figure stepped next to the line of Autobots: Blackwolf. He was damaged and beaten up; his spear was drawn and had a yellow glow coming from the laser port, a viscous sneer on his faceplate.

"Well then...allow me to further the fall!" Blackwolf knew the one weakness...destroy the spark.

He leaped off the cliff, spear aimed at Sigma; the Predacon's optics widened as he saw the Prime's spear aimed for his chest.

Blackwolf slammed into the Predacon, his spear pierced the armor, the blades went straight through the spark; he began firing his burning laser into the spark. The blast burned through the armor until there was a hallow hole in the Predacon's chest.

Sigma's orange optics became dull until they were only hallow voids. Blackwolf stood up, pulling his spear from the Predacon's chest.

They were all shocked, in a matter of seconds, Blackwolf had just killed a Cybertronian who was supposed to be indestructible. Mostly Arcee who had just watched HER sparkmate, kill the unbeatable; he did the impossible...then again, he always seemed to do that.

Blackwolf looked up, his flight system was still damaged, he sighed before laughing.

"Uhhh...a little help?" he called, Optimus flew down to help him.

(Omega Three)

The base had calmed down a lot more after they brought Blackwolf and Arcee home; knowing that Sigma was gone lifted a weight off their shoulders.

The water had returned to base, Arcee couldn't wait to finally wash off her armor properly. While she awaited Blackwolf, he was secretly planning something to do for her. He had a day to prepare something. He sat on the edge of their berth as she was waiting for him.

"C'mon mind! What should I do...giving her a physical gift doesn't seem right...I have to give her something to remember." there was only a few people present who knew Earth that well.

He walked out of their quarters and into the command center, towards the humans' raised area. Jack was out currently with June to have their own Christmas eve celebration before they came back tomorrow. Miko was playing video games while Raf was doing work on his computer.

"Hey uhh...Raf?" the youngest human turned to look at him.

"What's up?" he looked up to the Prime.

"Listen...don't let Arcee hear...but I'm trying to plan something to do for her...but I don't know enough about Earth to plan anything." Raf nodded, but didn't know what he wanted.

"So...what do you wanna...look for her?" Raf was curious.

Blackwolf sighed, giving it one last thought before speaking.

"Something...she'll remember." Raf gave it some thought before an idea appeared in his mind.

He began typing something on the computer, he pulled up a picture of a dark sky filled with vibrant, bright lights.

"What is that? Blackwolf was trapped in the lights and their alluring beauty.

"They're usually called the Northern Lights, there's a ton of science behind them, but I'll spare you the details, they're usually seen in parts of Canada and all of Alaska. Maybe that's what you're looking for?" Raf asked him, looking back at the Prime who seemed satisfied.

"I like it...where's an area where me and Arcee wouldn't...be spotted?" he asked the human.

"Here!" Raf began typing, until Blackwolf received an alert on his holo-tool.

"I just sent some to you, that area should be perfect." the young man smiled, the Prime smiled in return.

"Thank you Rafael." he walked off to join Arcee for a shower finally.

He didn't notice Miko hovering above him, while he was now seventeen, she was nineteen and the years had done her well since they met when she was fourteen and he was twelve. Her features had matured, her body had changed much and with it, her personality. She was still the hyper girl she always was, but she had shocked everyone lately.

She had taken a huge interest in history, always maintaining her grade now. It also shocked them that she had voluntarily joined the track team, one of the quickest runners too.

In all honesty, Raf had changed quite a bit as well; he remained the innocent genius as he always was, except he had grown at least a foot taller or even more, Bumblebee had convinced him that going to the gym s bit would help him with bullies in school; help it did. He still dressed nicely and had the same spiked up hair from when he was twelve.

She had a warm smile on her face as she hovered above Raf. He had an uncertain feeling about her smile.

"That was really sweet Raf." he felt his cheeks heat up a bit. He had a minor attraction towards her since he was sixteen, but he knew he didn't have a chance with her.

"It was just a friendly thing to do." he hid his feelings with a friendly smile.

"Mmmhmm..." she trailed off as she walked back to the couch, he looked back at her before returning his attention to the computer.

(Christmas Day, Omega Three)

Blackwolf had Ratchet punch in Raf's coordinates to the location he planned to take Arcee. He was currently in one of the rooms in the back of the base. A laser ran up and down his body, his paint seemed to restore to it's old look. His dark, jet black, the golden elite guard stripes, and his gray wolf insignia.

When he stepped out of the room, he was glowing with a restoring area around him. Jack and June had recently arrived at base, Fowler too. The humans were preparing to open their gifts as well as celebrate the fantastic year they had together.

He smiled as he overlooked his family; Optimus was enjoying his conversation with June and Fowler, Grimlock and Bulkhead were playing Lob ball, Jack, Miko, Raf, Bumblebee and Smokescreen were laughing together and telling several hilarious stories to each other; even Ratchet had a smile on his faceplate as he conversed with Optimus.

"Hey you." a mischievous voice softly alerted him. He looked back at Arcee, who he did a double take if his optics served him well.

"Primus!" he THOUGHT he spoke to himself, but with her so close, their spark bond allowed them to share their internal speech.

"Something...wrong?" she smirked. She was angelic to his optics, her chipped and faded, midnight blue paint had been restored; her pink and jet black paint was back, but yet it was far more vibrant than before. It was true that she had used paint containing a higher ratio of depth and glow, making her look more gorgeous than usual to his optics.

"Of course not...hey listen...mind...coming with me somewhere?" he asked.

"Where are we going?" she asked, he smirked a bit.

"Well...it's kind of a...surpprise." she smiled.

"Aww! I'm excited to see this." she was curious on what he was planning.

He led her to the ground bridge and opened it, the coordinated were already set. When the vortex opened, he kindly allowed her to go first, but he quickly jogged forward to cover her optics with his servos.

"What's this for?" she asked.

"The surprise..." he whispered deeply next to her helm, sending a chill up her metal spine.

Ratchet walked over and closed the ground bridge behind the sparkmate couple and began typing in coordinates for the space bridge.

The humans began opening all their gifts, Miko got some Japanese candy from home along a few action movies she had been wanting to see. Jack had already gotten his gifts from his mother along with her.

Raf opened his gift and revealed a new game console to replace their old one here at base.

Ratchet gestured for everyone to focus on him.

"Everyone...we as a family have been through much...I don't know much about this human holiday, but gift giving and receiving seems to be a part of it, so, for my oldest friend, I have a gift I've been arranging for the past few months from Cybertron." Optimus looked confused.

He opened the space bridge. Out of the bridge stepped a familiar femme; someone especially familiar to Optimus.

"Elita One?" he asked, his sparkmate stepped forward, smiling warmly as a small tear rolled down her metal cheek; it had been two years since they were reunited and last saw each other.

No words were exchanged between the two; he only surprised them all, including Elita, when he suddenly pulled her in for a passionate kiss. They all clapped happily for the old Prime and his sparkmate.

Miko stepped close to Raf; she had read some of his journal entries, she was shocked to find out that the boy had a 'small' crush on her. She smirked as she hid something behind her back as she approached the boy...practically man.

"Hey Raf..." he looked up, seeing her and spotted her raise a strangely familiar plant above them.

"Uhmmmm...isn't that a mistletoe?" he asked, before she leaned in.

"Mmmmhmmm." she chuckled before leaning closer and pressing her full lips against his own, his eyes widened in shock as his mind went blank; never before had he ever experienced such an incredible sensation; after a solid minute she pulled away and looked gorgeously into his eyes. He was speechless, a kiss from the girl he liked, also his first kiss, his cheeks lit up bright red and his eyes looked off into space.

It was a true Autobot Christmas.

(Alaska)

"Okay...open your optics!" he chuckled; she opened her gorgeous optics and they were instantly astonished. In front of them was a masterpiece of vibrant rays of neon lights soaring in different patterns and directions. It had been a long time since she had seen something so beautiful.

Blackwolf smiled, seeing her optics light up in joy and amazement; but he wasn't watching the lights as much as she was...but his lovely sparkmate.

She didn't know Earth had such a sight to behold, the only thing that equaled this was the crystal gardens of Cybertron, long since destroyed in the war.

"Blackwolf...I...I don't know what to even say...it's incredible..." she smiled warmly, feeling her pedes plant softly in the snow below them.

A stray energon tear rolled down her cheek, confusing him.

"Cee? Is something wrong?" he was concerned, she just chuckled and shook her helm.

"No...it's wonderful...it's just that..." she trailed off.

"It's so beautiful." she sighed, he pulled her in for a warm hug. She closed her optics as she relaxed into his hug, feeling only warmth and protection within his powerful, yet gentle arms. After a few minutes of this, they separated and focused back on the lights.

When she spotted the woods below, an idea formed in her mind. She smirked, a mischievous look in her optics.

"See ya' at the bottom!" she chuckle as she slid down the snow covered hillside, he was still shocked that she had just done that. She ran into the forest, the trees thick and barely contained any gaps.

He slowly stepped through the large trees, his optics struggled to locate his sparkmate. When he began getting a bit worried, a dark figure hung upside down from the tree in front of him, he only saw her blue optics before he felt Arcee suddenly kiss him; what he couldn't see was that she was hanging upside down and kissing him.

He reached up to grab her torso, playfully pulling her into the snow atop him. They both laughed playfully as the rolled around together in the snow til it ended up where they were both laying on their sides; their optics locked with each other.

He leaned down and pressed his helm against hers.

"I love you." he smiled.

"I love you too." she responded. They both leaned in and pressed their lips together, letting their fiery passion for each other bond yet again in this beautiful moment where they laid together under the dark, starry sky and the Northern Lights.


I AM FINISHED! Jeez I took too long to make this chapter, ugh, I meant to do this on Christmas day but with all the stuff I had going on, there was NO way that was gonna happen. So I guess I'll make it as a New Years gift lol. But seriously everyone, I have to say...despite everything that's happened in 2016, the good, the bad, the amazing, the terrifying; I'm grateful for everyone who supports what I write. I hope to make 2017 even better or just as great as this year was. Next time you guys see me post anything, it'll be 2017. But anyway, Happy New Years everyone!