I own nothing, just an insane passion for Transformers and Lion King.

last note, even if all of you already are confident with this convention:
"Bla" speak
/Bla/ Bee speak
(Bla) thought

Smokescreen. Bumblebee, Wheel-jack, and Bulkhead sneaking up to the edge of Primus Rock. From behind a log, they observe close up the hordes of Decepticons.

Wheel-jack looks horrified: "Decepticons?! I hate Decepticons!"

"Come on, Wheel-jack- you guys have to create a diversion"

"What?!"

Thanks to Wheel-jack's and Bulkhead's diversion, Smokescreen and Bumblebee snuck in, avoiding all the Decepticons on their route.

Smokescreen asks Bee to go and looking for Arcee, Smokey's mother. The idea of the yellow mech alone in the Decepticons territory scared Smokescreen, but he has to face Megatron, and that seems way more dangerous.

He finds the tyrant on the top of Primus rock, the highest building of their hometown. Megatron is speaking with someone out of Smokey's field of view, but he doesn't need to see the other mech, he can recognize his mum's voice even after all this years.

His mum is saying that no, there are no more energon.

"No! You're just not looking hard enough."

"It's over. There is nothing left. We have only one choice. We must leave Primus Land."

Smokey can hears the madness in his uncle voice, and he knows his mother is hearing the same, but she keeps trying to make the other mech understand.

"We're not going anywhere"

Arcee's answer is full of her regality: "Then you have sentenced us to death"

"Then so be it"

Now Smokescreen can understand why Bumblebee seems so scared of Megatron.

"You can't do that" Arcee's tone now is disgusted.

"I'm the king. I can do whatever I want"

"If you were half the king Optimus was you would nev—"

When Megatron hits Arcee, knocking her to the ground, Smokescreen cannot resists anymore, and shows himself, and shields his mum from Megatron.

Arcee is now delighted "Smokescreen? You're alive? How can that be?"

Smokescreen knew he was going to front a lot of question, but this seems too early to him "It doesn't matter; I'm home" ok, lets try to avoid the question a little bit longer, and go for more weighty business: "The choice is yours, Megatron. Either step down or fight."

"Oh, must it all end in violence? I'd hate to be responsible for the death of a family member. Wouldn't you agree, Smokescreen? "

" That's not gonna work, Megatron. I've put it behind me"

"And have THEY put it behind them?"

/Smokescreen, what is he talking about?/ Smokescreen didn't notice before the approach of Bee on the next celling, but now he can see he assembles a big group of Autobots, mechs who he recognizes as his father's friends and followers.

Megatron's smirk give Smokescreen the creeps. "Ahh, so you haven't told them your little secret. Well, Smokescreen, now's your chance to tell them. Tell them who is responsible for Optimus's death!"

All the attendees are concentrating on Smokescreen now. "It was an accident" that sounds weak at least.

"If it weren't for you, Optimus would still be alive. It's your fault he's dead; do you deny it?"

"No"

"Then you're GUILTY!"

"No, I'm not a murderer!"

"Oh, Smokescreen, you're in trouble again. But this time, Daddy isn't here to save you. And now EVERYONE.. KNOWS... WHY!"

Smokescreen isn't sure how Megatron managed that, but one moment he was on the Primus Rock top, moving backwards, the moment after he was falling, and his hands somehow manage to find a grip on the edge. He hears Bumblebee yelling his name, his fear and dread clear even in his beep and chirp tones. He cannot see him from his position, but he cannot fail him again, especially since he doesn't understand yet how bad he fails him the first time.

All this thoughts vanishes when Megatron speaks again: "Now this looks familiar. Hmm. Where have I seen this before? Let me think. Hmmm... hmmm. Oh yes, I remember. This is just the way your father looked before he died." The tyrant get closer: "And here's MY little secret: I killed Optimus, I took your place as king and I fraged that yellow mate of yours… he screamed so much, till the moment I ripped off his vocalizer"

Smokescreen's spark almost stop, all this years spent feeling guilty for his dad, and now the knowledge that if he hadn't run, he would have saved Bee from Megatron.

His Bee, his best friend and probably first crush, attacked, scarred, mutilated from this monster.

His red rage swallows everything, and he jumps on the tyrant, starting a violent fight. At the end he manage to pin him on the Primus Rock ceiling, and order him to confess his crimes "Tell them the truth!"

"Truth? But truth is in the eye of the beholdllgkkk!"

Smokescreen patiences run low, and he starts to choke Megatron.

"All right. All right. I did it"

"So they can hear you"

"I killed Optimus!" is not all the truth, but he can imagine Bee would prefers haven't every mech knows his story…

Anyway there is no time, as the Autobots come closer to kill Megatron. Decepticons counterattack, but the rage of the Autobots and their team play allow this group to prevail.

The final match between Megatron and Smokescreen leaves Megatron injured, but Smokescreen cannot kill him. He leaves him at the (lack of) mercy of the Decepticons, whom revolt against him, and kill him before leave Primus Land for good.

When Bee arrives on the top of Primus Rock, plates scarred and dent from his own fight against the Decepticons, he finds Smokescreen looking down from he celling of the building.

/Thank you for save all us/

"I doesn't deserve you gratitude, and I has to apologize with you"

/What's all about?/

"I leave you, and I wasn't here when he attack you and I didn't save you and I'm so sorry, so sorry, Bee, please forgive me, can you forgive me Bee?Even if I don't deser—"

/stop, stop now… Breath, Smokey, breath with me… in … and out….. ok, we are ok, it wasn't your fault, I wasn't able to defend myself, and it not your fault, and I wish you never hear about that…/

They are both crying, they hug on the highest building of their hometown, the town they just saved, they should be grown up mechs but they just act like the younglings they are forced to stop to be.

But they are together, and the tyrant is dead, and they have all the time to heal.

In two years from now they will end the Primus Land reconstruction, in three they will be ready to became spark mate, and in four they will be parents of a healthy youngling, next king of Primus Land, but now, they just enjoy the reciprocal company.

Fin

thank you all for follow till the end.