"Oh what a pity it is my liege to see you in such a helpless and unprotected state," Starscream continued, "Why practically anyone could just walk right in here and terminate you." Starscream couldn't help but smile at the thought. Bumblebee burst through the door and shot several stinger blasts at Starscream. Starscream grimaced at the pain. He shot a null blast at Bumblebee and knocked him into the wall. He grabbed Bumblebee by the throat.

"YOU INTERRUPTED MY SPEEEEEECH!" Starscream roared, "But don't worry. It won't happen again."

"Time to learn the price of betraying me Starscream," Megatron whispered. He used his technokinesis to control a crane. The crane grabbed Starscream, zoomed upward, and threw Bumblebee and Starscream through the skylight.

"What is going on here?!" Sumdac ran inside the lab and looked at the carnage.

"Time is short! The evildoers are making a full scale assault on your world! I need my new body now!" Megatron rushed.

"I'll do what I can!"

"As will I!" Megatron pulled up a security screen.

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"Woah," Bumblebee shook his head, "Somebody down there likes me." He aimed his stinger at Starscream. He fired a bolt, but Starscream deflected it with a null-ray and knocked Bumblebee off the roof. Luckily Bumblebee grabbed onto the ledge.

"Well this has been fun Autobot. But your time is up!" Starscream pointed his blaster at him. Back inside the lab, Megatron activated one of the tower's defenses. A strong bolt of lightning struck Starscream from an antenna.

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"We have come for our glorious leader Megatron!" Lugnut landed in the lab followed by Blitzwing.

"I am here Lugnut," Megatron called.

"Oh master!" Lugnut fell on his knees and hands and bowed, "I am not worthy! I am not worthy!" just then, he realized that Megatron was a corpse in a stasis pod. "What happened to you?"

"Long story."

"So you didn't have voices in your head," Blitzwing said, "You had a dead guy in your head! Ahahaha!" Lugnut smacked Blitzwing to the ground.

"I swore I would not fail you oh great one! Victory is at hand! And now's the time to crush the Autobots into oblivion!"

"What are you talking about?! Who are you?!" Sumdac looked at the two Decepticons. Lugnut forced Sumdac to the ground.

"On your knees Earth scum. And bow before the great and glorious Megatron! Supreme leader of all Decepticons!"

"Decepticons? But you told me you were an Autobot!"

"And I hate every moment of that humiliating charade," Megatron admitted, "But no more."

"I can't believe I trusted you. What have I done?"

"Professor Sumdac, you can't leave just yet." Megatron picked him up with a crane and sat him down in his chair. "Don't you want to see the completion of that which you helped to create?" Blitzwing walked to the stasis pod and opened the door. The fog crept out and over the floor. Blitzwing shivered at the sight of the corpse. He held up the key and injected it into Megatron's chest then stepped back.

Megatron glowed blue. The energy traveled from the pod and throughout the lab. Wiring burst out of the walls and lifted Megatron up and held him in the middle of the air at the center of the lab. Various equipment, scraps, and pieces of the wall were ripped apart by the energy and darted to Megatron then attached to him. the metal bent and folded into parts until Megatron had become a cyborg. Then the metal began to melt and form any missing parts. Wiring formed blood vessels. Metal became flesh and skin. Piping became bone. Then a second layer of metal floated around the body and transformed into armor and weaponry. Megatron fell to the floor and stood there feeling the amazing power.

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Bumblebee used that lightning distraction to get on the roof. When the lightning stopped, Bumblebee jumped up and tried a spin kick at Starscream's neck. Starscream caught it and threw him against a wall. Starscream fired a null-ray, but Bumblebee ducked, rolled forward, and went for a lightning jab. Starscream moved out of the way and backhanded Bumblebee in the back of the head, knocking him to the ground. Bumblebee stood on his hands and pushed himself up so his feet struck Starscream in the jaw, a trick he'd learned from Prowl. Starscream quickly recovered and punched at Bumblebee, but he ducked. Starscream then kneed Bumblebee in the chest knocking him back to the ledge and aimed his blaster at him.

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"Is that Starscream? And Bumblebee?" Prowl gasped.

"Guess he didn't listen to ya," Bulkhead said.

"Yes, it's becoming quite a habit," Optimus sighed.

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All of Sumdac Tower glowed blue for thirty seconds then red. Starscream stared in horror at the glow under his feet.

"NO! it can't be!" he gasped. A huge explosion blasted a hole in the roof and almost blew off Bumblebee and Starscream. A figure burst out of the smoke in a blur. And then, there floated Megatron. After so many years, Megatron had finally returned…

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TO BE CONTINUED…