Blackout stood on top of one of the many grey identical apartments in the bland hue of Chernobyl. The beige and purple fighter jet roared around the building, transforming into a humanoid being. He somersaulted, landing beside Blackout with a thud.

"Ah Blitzwing my old friend. I see you've already given them a welcome?"

"Yeah, there cutting through the back alleyways" He snarled in a sinister voice.

"I appreciate your assistance, my old teammate"

"Well, you've been after her for eons. It would be wrong not to call the duo back together to end her" He smirked at Blackout.

"We'll hunt them like we did Silverbolt. Split up and use the towers as cover. No vehicles. We wouldn't want them to hear us coming would we?" Blackout explained his plan as he overlooked Chernobyl.

"Excellent strategy master. What shall I do?" Scorponok asked.

"Simply push them towards the reactor. If we fail to kill her before they reach the reactor, then we have our endgame"

"Radiation" Blitzwing laughed. The beige and purple giant slid down the side of the tower to the ground and Blackout leaped, falling to the radiation sickened earth below. A massive thud echoed and Scorponok dug away into the ground. The hunters were on the move.

Meanwhile Arcee and Jack leaped over the last fence and onto solid concrete paving. She aimed to the sky, checking for enemies. Now there were three to worry about.

"So this...Blitzwing guy, what do you know about him?" Jack asked.

"He's ruthless. Spent eons in Iacon Asylum for murdering fourteen scientists. Megatron freed him during the war and offered him a place in the Decepticons. He fought for a while, but ended up joining Blackout's team" She explained.

"Wait, Blackout's team?"

"Yeah. He led a team of Bounty Hunters, but in the end went solo, except for Scorponok"

Jack looked at her. She was scratched and scarred from her fight with Scorponok. Nothing major, but they were still wounds.

Suddenly Jack's Autobot logo began beeping. The blue flashes illuminating the darkened path they were on. His heart dropped and hot blood fuzzed through his veins.

"Err Cee. My radiation counters going off"

Her face was full of horror and fear. She knew time was running out.

"Jack, you feeling alright?"

"I'm a little dizzy, have been for a while now"

She stopped walking, leaning down and looking at him closely.

"Why didn't you say anything?" She shouted at him.

"You already have enough on your mind"

"Primus, we need to hurry" she knew that time wasn't an ally, and had to hurry...otherwise Jack would perish. Transforming to her motorcycle form would alert the hunters, but she had no choice.

"Jack. You feel like bending rule one and racing again? Because we have got to hurry"

"Huh...I thought that you said just this once?" He smiled, feeling weaker. She felt helpless, trapped in a distant ghost town as Jack was coming to radiation sickness.

"Scrap...Jack hold on tight" she transformed into her motorcycle form and Jack climbed on, the suit helping him with its Exo-skeletal strength. She revved and her headlights beamed.

The hunter's heads lifted in the direction of the noise.

"Move in. She's given away her location" Blitzwing smirked.

"Okay. Need to time this exactly right" She said to herself. Night was starting to fall and a deep dark grey hue was falling on Chernobyl.

She sat, waiting for the perfect moment. Footsteps that rattled the ground and cause rotting bricks to tumble from the towers echoed across the ghost town. She stood her ground, bright light from her headlights shining out and against the wall of an apartment block opposite the path. The circle of light painted on the wall became brighter and brighter as the night settled in.

Come on, come on.

Then Blitzwing's head peered around the corner, his villainous psychotic grin blaring across his face.

"Got you now Autobot!" He roared, lunging around the corner at her. She revved and her back wheel spun, kicking up dirt. She raced under him and he missed her, crashing into the wall behind her.

Arcee began her sprint to the Nemesis. A final push through Chernobyl.

Blitzwing pulled his head from the crumbling wall. He did not take failure well. His red eyes blared bright and his silver teeth flared.

"Alright then" He snarled, getting up and sprinting after her, leaping into the air and transforming into his Jet form. She raced along the paving, dodging rusty car corpses.

Blitzwing roared overhead tilting the Jet and morphing into a tank, skimming the massive vehicle across the ground and firing at her, blowing a crater the size of car into the pavement behind her. She sped past the tank, dodging him. The tank became a jet once again and blasted off into the sky.

"Blitzwing to Blackout, you wanna get in on this? She's making a run!" The Jet disappeared into the clouds. She kept going along the light diminished path, headlights lighting her way. Occasionally a car carcass would appear in her full beam headlights, and she'd swiftly skirt around it.

She angled her wing mirror to see Jack. He was growing weak and his radiation counter was clicking faster and faster. Suddenly she saw a huge Helicopter turn the corner behind her in her mirror.

"Objects in mirror are closer than they appear!"She snarled, racing though the ghost town. Blackout was in pursuit. His blasting searchlight followed her.

"You cannot escape me pest!" He roared, the helicopter rotors blowing over dead trees and rusty car shells.

He flew over her head, turning the massive helicopter to face her and transformed. His wrist swung at her, rotor saw spinning and slicing through the ground as she just raced past him. He slammed against the ground, rolling over and pulling his blades from the concrete.

"Scrap! Blitzwing, get her. Scorponok, box her in. Plan B" He transformed again, lifting higher into the night sky.

Arcee was using all her brain power to track every eerie movement and dodge not only the hunters, but debris on the paving.

"Okay, okay...keep going old girl. Jack! Jack stay with me!" She cried. He shook his head and woke up.

"I'm good Cee. I'm...good"

"Scrap!" she shouted, suddenly turning down a back alley as Blitzwing terrifyingly exited the clouds. The roar of the fighter grew louder. She raced along the back of the apartment blocks and smashed through weak metal fences.

Suddenly a rumbling sensation ran up her tires. A tunneling plume of dirt chased her through the overgrown cement. The Scorpion Decepticon dived and disappeared beneath the ground time and time again like a dolphin in the ocean. She sharply turned left at the end of the blocks, back onto a path.

Just ahead of her was a beige and purple tank, her headlights reflecting off of him. The shell left the barrel, recoil shrugging the tank. She slid under the shell and it slammed into the leaping from the earth Scorponok.

"Ahh!" He roared as the shell exploded against him. Arcee sped past the tank as he transformed, slamming his fist into the ground just behind her, missing her by inches.

"Scrap!" Blitzwing bellowed. Scorponok sat up, rubbing his head.

"Whose side are you on?" Scorponok questioned. The insane hunter transformed into his Jet form and took to the sky.

"Okay so far so good, come on Cee" She rallied herself. At that moment the Pave Low returned, transforming and landing in front of her, she tilted and zoomed past him, just as he activated his electromagnetic pulse. A blue wave of energy rippled outwards, blowing rusty cars through the air and humming deeply. She dodged the crashing car bodies and debris from the blast.

He stood tall as she escaped further, watching her disappear past the apartment blocks.

"Scorponok, return to me" He said, the scorpion tunneling towards him. He opened his back, splaying his blades outwards. Scorponok leaped into his back and Blackout somersaulted into the air, forming a Pave Low.

"Blitzwing, execute the falling tank" he ordered. Blitzwing laughed demonically as his jet lifted up into the clouds. He suddenly cut his engines, falling silent and plummeting back to earth. As he began to nose dive, he transformed into a tank, locating her and firing multiple shells at her as he dived.

"Whoa!" she cried out as tank shells exploded against the concrete, swallowing cement and erupting upwards in a bellow of smoke. She concentrated so hard, watching every corner as tank shells blew the ground apart around her. Jack was still awake but very quiet, letting her concentrate and maybe hiding his terror as he clung on for dear life.

She finally exited the apartment block forest and onto more wide open terrain, near the reactor. Because of the lack of population, there was no artificial light, bar headlights and explosions from the hunters. Darkness was consuming Chernobyl.

Blitzwing's tank form reach a level too low to continue the performance, and he transformed into the jet, blasting exhaust flames into the ground and pulling back up into the night sky.

She suddenly caught sight of the reactor. She was on a large open concrete flat plain. Not far away were the Nemesis and the reactor. But the hunters were closing in. She slid under the cover of a patio roof, connected to a long abandoned hotel near the reactor.

She shut off her engine and headlights, plunged into darkness and silence.

"Jack? Jack sweetheart you okay?" She asked.

"Sweetheart? That's a little weird for you Cee" He chuckled.

"Yeah, you're fine"

She looked out over the long stretch of open terrain leading to the reactor site, and the Nemesis, hidden in the dark sky.

"How do we get up there?" She asked herself.

"You shouldn't worry about that, you should worry about me" Blitzwing's terrifying voice sounded as his tank appeared, blasting a shell through the hotel and blowing her into robot form, sliding along the ground. Jack rolled along the floor, luckily his suit protected him.

Arcee groaned as she rolled over onto her back. Suddenly Blitzwing transformed. He leaped onto her, pushing her head down with his palm. He stroked her face and held her throat.

"You know, I was in Iacon asylum for a long time, for multiple crimes. You know what one of those crimes was? Well long story short, mass murder tends to put bots off letting you in public. It's a shame Blackout wants to kill you. I'd have such fun with a bot like you" He whispered in her ear. She tried to claw at him and get away but Blitzwing was huge and very powerful.

"Shh, you and I are gonna have a hell of a time" He snarled in her audio receptors.

Suddenly a blast of energy battered the side of his temple and he released her, falling to the floor. She crawled away into the darkness. Blitzwing staggered up to his massive feet. When he saw the shooter he was shocked.

"You?" He growled.

Jack was stood holding Arcee's blaster. Before Blitzwing fired the tank shell through the hotel, she transferred her blaster to Jacks suit.

"I'm a good shot" Jack weakly grinned, his helmet closing around his head.

"You have any idea who you're messing with Kid? I am a walking Nightmare. Decepticons are scared of me! I have done things that would make you scream with fear! Like to find out what my greatest crime was?" Jack staggered back, wondering where Arcee had gone.

Suddenly Jack's bravery faded, and radiation sickness was getting the better of him. Blitzwing smiled as he grew nearer, slamming his fist into the concrete, blowing Jack onto the ground. He leaned down and looked at Jack.

"I slit the throats of fourteen scientists, and watched their Energon spill everywhere!" Jack recoiled as he heard him explain his kills. Blitzwing truly was insane.

"I have yet to see what human blood looks like though, maybe you can be my first" He laughed demonically.

"Over my dead body" Arcee sounded, slamming her fists against his head, throwing Blitzwing off of Jack. He clambered to his feet and began swinging his fists at her. She ducked under every swing, the swooping whisper of every punch breaking the air.

Arcee upper cut him, watching his head jerk back. He staggered and transformed into a tank. She leaped onto him, grabbing the tank barrel and aiming it away from Jack, but he fired and it sailed into the dark air. Moments later a flash erupted and it exploded against the side of a nearby building.

The building slowly tipped, growling and exploding loudly. After several seconds of ear splitting collapse, it fell over, erupting into exploding concrete and metal. Jack sprinted away from the tsunami of rubble and twisted metal.

"Jack!" She cried out.

Blitzwing transformed grabbing her with both hands and raising her over his head. He roared and slammed her down against his knee.

When the dust settled, the slightly diagonal shaped pile made for a perfect ramp. Arcee was suddenly thrown from the psychotic hunter and she slid along the ground. Bltizwing stood broad and fearsome as Blackout arrived, standing beside him.

"All yours Blackout. She's not my type" he snarled.

It was strange. Blitzwing was a psychotic killer who would never surrender a kill, but he had a loyalty and friendship with Blackout and knew how long he'd waited to kill Arcee. He could starve his hunger for an Autobot kill a little longer.

"Goodbye Arcee" He growled, aiming his cannon at her.

She looked at the building's ruin and knew it was her only shot to get on the Nemesis.

She immediately grabbed Jack, transforming and riding towards the building ruin. Blackout fired at her, every shot missing, but only by inches.

"For Grindor!" he aimed and fired. Arcee raced up the ruin and gave all her might. Jack clung to the handlebars as she sped up the ramp.

"Wait, Cee what are you ah!" Jack shouted as she launched herself up to the Nemesis's wing tip. Blackout's shot exploded against the ramp, missing her by millimeters. It was so close Jack could feel the heat from the plasma.

Her wheels bounced against the wing and they were aboard the Nemesis. A huge weight was lifted off of her shoulders. She didn't have to worry about it leaving without them.

"Jack, are you okay?"

"Yeah. Yeah...I'm" Jack was getting worse.

She sped up onto the landing strip on top of the ship. After landing her tough tires, Arcee immediately transformed, lowering Jack gently.

"Jack, look at me. Are you okay?" He stood up, his helmet disabling. He looked at her weary eyed.

"Yes I'm-" He immediately turned, vomiting on the ship. He gagged and his back arched. Arcee panicked.

"Jack!"

He wiped his mouth with his armoured sleeve.

"Well the Decepticons will hate me for that" he chuckled.

She had to save the Autobots, but his radiation sickness was getting worse.

"Jack. I need you to hide"

"No...I'm with you" He staggered.

"No! You're in no condition" she pleaded. Suddenly Blackout and Blitzwing landed on top of the ship.

"It's rude to miss your own funeral Arcee. Let's have a do over" Blackout growled. She had no time to convince him, and transformed, Jack holding onto her handlebars as she sped to the entrance to the ships interior. Blaster fire slammed against the ship around her.

A Vehicon opened the huge door to see her speed towards him. She punched her spinning tires against his head and knocked him back. Arcee carried on racing through the ship as he tumbled to the purple deco floor. Blitzwing was in hot pursuit, walking through the ship behind her. Blackout split off, heading to the bridge.

Meanwhile Arcee raced down the seemingly never ending hallway.

"Arcee. Arcee, stop!" Jack begged. She slammed on her brakes, transforming. He stood before her, stifling a cough.

"You're right. You'd be quicker on your own. I'll hold off Blitzwing" He snarled. She had to scoff and laugh a little.

"You want to hold off that...monster? No way he will kill you and make it slow...like he did Silverbolt"

"Well I'll lead him in the wrong direction. Whoa, little dizzy" He staggered, steadying himself against the wall.

"We need to hurry. Ratchet can heal your sickness at base, but we need to save them!"

"Then what Cee? What! One minute you want me to hide, the next it's come with me? I don't get you sometimes" He roared, feeling hopeless.

"I don't want to die from this sickness...but I don't want you to die either Cee"

"Jack I'll be fine. Once I free the others, we'll get out of here and back to base"

"You just don't get it do you Cee? It's not that I'm concerned about, it's you!"

"I'm fine"

"No you're not! You shouldn't be! How could anyone be fine?" He argued.

"Alright Jack, you want to opened that door? Yes I'm terrified! I'm afraid of you losing you, I'm afraid of what Blitzwing and Blackout have in store for me and I'm scared of what condition my family will be in, so yes I'm scared! Happy?" She roared.

"No. Not at all. Cee, look it's okay to be afraid"

"Oh yeah, like you'd know. You weren't on the front lines of Cyberton! You didn't see Blitzwing behead a friend right before your optics, watching all that Energon spill onto the floor like blood. He scares me Jack. I suffered from shell shock after that battle. And now he's back to kill me!"

"Like hell he will" Jack comforted her.

"Jack...how fast can you run?" Her bottom lip trembling as her eyes gazed past him.

"The suit's keeping me up right and boosting my strength, why?" He asked her.

"Because Blitzwing is stood down the hallway" She got up, backing away. The huge Decepticon stood in the hallway, red eyes gleaming from the silhouette. Jack looked over his shoulder at the terrifying monster

"Running Arcee? Well let's have some fun" He slammed his fist through the wall and ripped out a large portion of wires. The lights suddenly began flickering and Blitzwing dropped the vein like cables and began walking towards them, fists clenched.

"Jack run! Run!" She cried, sprinting with him. He still had her left blaster and fired at Blitzwing before turning the corner.

"I'm right behind you!" Blitzwing roared, echoing through the ship.

Here they were trying to navigate through a ship with flickering lights, every now and then plunging them into darkness, trying to outrun a crazed homicidal monster.

"Jack, keep up, please" She begged as he sprinted with her.

"We need to find the detention level. Just before turning another corner Jack looked back and saw Blitzwing's red eyed silhouetted turn the corner after them.

"Cee run!" He shouted as they jogged through the ships halls.

"We want the detention level" She said, looking for a map of the ships layout. Jack covered her rear with the blaster. She accessed a terminal and a hologram of the ship appeared.

"Hurry Cee" He begged, watching the corner. Cold sweat trickled down his forehead.

"Here we go. Deck three. We're on four. Damn we need a lift" She mumbled to herself as the holographic map closed form the terminal.

"No we don't have time!" Jack shouted, aiming his blaster at the floor and firing around his feet, melting and breaking the floor. Suddenly Blitzwing turned the corner only feet away, fists clenched.

"No time, run Jack!" She cried, grabbing his arm and running with him, firing over her shoulder at Blitzwing.

He shrugged it off and kept walking after them. A loud demonic laugh echoed across the hall.

"The Itzy bitzy Arcee climbed up the water spout. Down came Blitzwing and took the Autobot out!" He sung in a bellowing evil voice echoing throughout the ship.

Arcee turned the next corner and saw the entrance to an elevator.

"Yes an Elevator, finally" Jack sighed, stepping inside. Arcee followed and rapidly clicked the pad for deck three.

"Come on, come on" she mumbled, looking up to see Blitzwing turn the corner as the doors shut.

"Come on" Come on!" She shouted. Suddenly his palms parted the doors and ripped them in half, like tissue paper. Arcee and Jack fired their blasters at him, hitting his chest and face. He staggered back from the barrage and the elevator zoomed down to the third floor.

"Thank god Cybertronians have fast elevators. If this happened on a human ship, we'd be scrapped" Jack sighed, coughing into his palm. He looked at it to see red on his hand. A heavy weight landed on his back as he saw this liquid, and his heart thumped faster.

I just coughed up blood. Oh god

Jack looked at Arcee, who was too busy worrying about other matters, like Blitzwing's pursuit. He wiped the blood on his leg and tried to forget it.

"Floor three" the elevator said. They looked forward to see Blackout waiting for them.

"Hello!" He roared, lunging for Arcee, she ducked under his fist and ran after Jack.

"Go Jack. Go!" She roared as she fired at Blackout. He grabbed her and slammed her against the wall. Despite his emotions, he knew the only way to save her was the Autobots.

She fought with him, shooting his face as he threw her against the wall and stamped on her chest.

Jack ran, dizziness making his balance off, but he kept going, he had to. He turned a corner and heard a massive crash and bang from behind.

"I don't think Blitzwing used the elevator"

Against his better judgement Jack walked back and peered around the corner. Blackout and Arcee fought at the distant end of the hallway. In between them was a pile of metal and wires. On the ceiling was a huge hole. Suddenly Blitzwing leaped through the hall, landing with fists clenched.

"I've got Arcee, kill the boy!" Blackout roared.

"Jack run!" Arcee screamed as she kicked Blackout's head. Blitzwing looked over his shoulder at Jack. A grin illuminated across his evil face. Jack panicked and ran. Blitzwing turned and walked after him.

"Come on where is the detention cell?" Jack huffed as he ran. Blitzwing's taunts echoed across the ship.

"I will hunt you! I will find you!"

Jack turned a corner, seeing a Vehicon stood guarding a large door.

"Gotta be the cell block"

He aimed Arcee's blaster and fired, several shots hitting the Vehicon in the head by surprise. It fell to its knees and as it raised its blaster in a last stand. Jack finished it with a kill shot, the body slumping backwards.

Jack quickly aimed up at the control panel. The sound of Blitzwing's footsteps made his blood run cold. Jack fired, blowing the panel apart. The door opened with a hiss and he ran inside, just missing Blitzwing.

Jack looked up with a sigh of relief. Hanging from the ceiling was Optimus.

"Jack?" He asked as he awoke.

"Come to get you out, but we gotta hurry, it's Blitzwing!"

Jack scanned the room for a control panel of some kind. He finally saw it by the door, a large rectangular panel with schematics for the shackles.

"Better hope this is it"

He shot at the panel powering the shackles. With a fuzzy explosion the electricity failed and Optimus dropped to the floor. Jack ran over to his giant friend and carefully shot the shackles, breaking them off of him. Optimus rubbed his wrists. He was free.

"Jack, thank you. I-"

"Later Optimus, we need to hurry Arcee's in trouble and we need to save the others"

"Arcee is here? Where is the Nemesis?"

"Over Chernobyl. Long story short we raced through the town to get here and I've got radiation sickness"

He turned back to see Blitzwing's terrifying silhouette in the doorway.

"Jack, go free the others, I will hold off Blitzwing" Optimus activated his battle mask and roared as he lunged at him.

"I've been looking forward to this Optimus!" Blitzwing roared as he slammed his fist against Prime's chest. Optimus swooped under his vicious attacks and upper cut Blitzwing. They continued their battle in the hallway, Optimus keeping Blitzwing away from Jack.

Jack headed through another door, connected to Optimus's cell.

He filed in, aiming Arcee's blaster. The darkened room was illuminated with ice blue energy for sets of shackles.

"Jack?" A familiar voice sounded. Ratchet never looked so happy to see him.

"What are you doing here?" He asked as he hung from the shackles. Jack smiled to him.

"Thought we'd break you out, unless you like it here?"

Ratchet simply chuckled.

"Let's get you out guys" Jack smiled. On the other side of the room was Ironhide and Jazz.

"Yo Jack! Good to see ya man" Jazz cheered from his shackles.

Jack looked around for the release panel.

"Ratchet, you see the power switch anywhere?" Jack looked along the walls, seeing nothing.

"If you wish to free your friends, then you'll need to get past yours truly" a pair of red eyes said as a face leaned into the light. Starscream chuckled evilly as he raised his talon like fingers.