Chapter 2

"_"– Bumblebee talking

'_' – Thoughts

'_'- Bond talking

": _:"- Comlink talking

"/_/"- Singing

After Arcee showed Karai around the base she showed Karai her room. Karai lay down on her new berth and stared at the celling. She wondered what her new life was going to be like with Team Prime.

The next day their scanners had picked up a huge energon mine, but the Decepticons were already there.

"We must secure the energon."

"Let me help." Karai said.

"Karai, you need to stay here. We'll call if you need you." Optimus said. Karai nodded and Ratchet opened the ground bridge.

A few hours later Optimus commed Ratchet and asked him to send Karai to help them.

"Be very careful Karai." Ratchet said.

"How bad could it be?" Karai shrugged and went through the ground bridge.

Megatron had put up an electron cage around the Autobots so whenever they touched the bars they got an electric shock.

": Lord Megatron, we are under attack!:" Starscream commed.

": Bring the Autobot to me:" Megatron replied.

": I'll bring her, as soon as we catch her:" Starscream said through.

": How hard can it be to catch a femme?:" Megatron asked.

"HEY!" Arcee crossed her servos over her chassis and Megatron rolled his optics.

": You'll need to see it to believe it, but she's a flying Autobot:" Starscream said before they all heard gunfire and they saw a red glow being chased by a bunch of Decepticon seekers. Then one of the seekers shot the red glow and it fell out of the sky. Megatron smiled and took a few steps towards the bushes where the red glow had fallen. Then Karai pounced on him with her hands on his chassis. Megatron only stared at her with wide optics. She then jumped off him and onto the cliff above the Autobots and stood up straight. Megatron couldn't take his optics off Karai. She had changed her entire outfit. She had black open toe high heels, black cat scratched leather pants, belt suspenders; her torso was open and she had a black leather bra with a red outline. She growled at Megatron and started to glow red again.

"What's she doing?" Bulkhead asked.

"I have no idea." Optimus said blankly. Karai roared in fury at Megatron and made a red whip and wrapped it around his pede and pulled Megatron up to her. She used the whip to hold Megatron high enough so that his faceplates were right next to hers. Then the two of the got a strange feeling in their sparks as they looked into their eyes. Karai's whip disappeared and Megatron started to fall. She grabbed onto his servo and held on with all of her strength, but Megatron was a lot heavier then Karai and she dropped him. She closed her eyes and shook her head. Why had she just tried to save the Decepticon warlord? What was that feeling deep within her spark and why was it only present when she was close to Megatron?

"Karai, come down." Optimus called and Karai jumped down from the cliff. She broke the controls for the cage and it disappeared.

"Karai, what happened there? Why did you try to save Megatron?"

"I-I don't know." Karai stammered. She looked over her shoulder to see Arcee glaring at her.

"I've got a better question," Bulkhead said smiling, "What is with that outfit?"

"Don't you like it?" Karai asked.

"I like it, but isn't it a little… you know?" Bulkhead said rubbing the back of his neck cables, trying not to look at Karai's chest.

"I know it's sort of skimpy, but it distracts the enemy." Karai shrugged.

": Ratchet, we need a ground bridge:" Optimus said over his comlink and a ground bridge opened for them. But then someone shot Karai in the back.

"Karai!" Bulkhead cried when Karai hit the ground, some blood coming from her back. Her eyes shut tightly and she cringed in pain.

": Ratchet, we're goanna need you down here:" Bumblebee commed and Ratchet ran through the ground bridge with a medical kit. He immediately started to repair the wound on her back. Megatron stood up and saw Ratchet fixing Karai; he got that feeling in his spark again. Ratchet picked Karai up so that her back was facing up and he ran back through the ground bridge with the others.

Karai was lying face down on one of the medical berths and he repaired her while Optimus asked her some questions about what happened before.

"Karai, about your red ring. How does it work?" Optimus asked.

"It's powered by my hate and whatever I think of I can create."

"But when you were confronted by Megatron, your whip disappeared. What happened then?" Bumblebeeasked.

"I don't know." Karai whispered.

"Karai, you should get some rest. Tomorrow you'll be going on an energon hunt with Arcee and Bulkhead." Optimus said. Karai nodded and laid her head down on the berth before going into a peaceful recharge.

The next morning:

Karai, Arcee, Bulkhead, Jack and Miko were looking around an energon mine. Jack, Miko and Karai stayed outside the mine while Arcee and Bulkhead were inside. Not long after they had come back out saying that they couldn't find any energon, Miko went in,

"COOL!" She yelled as she ran in.

"She went in, unbelievable!" Arcee said.

"Really, have you even met her?" Jack asked.

"Ugh, Miko, get back here!" Bulkhead called as he ran into the mine with Karai behind him.

"You go this way and I'll go that way." Karai said as they reached a fork in the mine.

Karai walked through the mine and accidently slipped and fell, twisting her ankle,

"Scrap!" she cursed and then the ground started to shake and rocks started to fall from the ceiling. She cried out and she covered her head with her hands as more rocks fell. Soon the entrance to the chamber she was in was blocked and she was trapped.

Hours after the mine collapsed Arcee, Bulkhead, Jack and Miko came out of the mine,

"We could finish them, here and now." Arcee said.

"Shame we didn't bring any grenades." Bulkhead punched his fist.

"Would Optimus finish them?" Jack asked.

"No, he wouldn't." Arcee sighed.

"Wait," Miko said, "Where's Karai?" Bulkhead checked his scanner and lowered his helm.

"I'm only picking up our signals."

"No." Arcee whispered.

Little did they know that Karai was too far underground, in a secret chamber, which only Megatron knew about. Megatron had fallen into the chamber and had woken up hours later, and her saw Karai.