"Oh this is all my fault!" Sumdac ran into the lobby where the Autobots sat and rubbed their wounds.

"You had nothing to do with this," Optimus assured.

"But I did!" Sumdac admitted, "I rebuilt Megatron! Twenty years ago, I found Megatron's body crashed in a field. I used a mind scanner to learn his knowledge of mechanics and used it to build my robotic empire."

"Are you saying that—?"

"My entire robotics empire is based off your greatest enemy."

"You had Megatron all this time," Bulkhead accused, "And you never told us?!"

"He tricked me! He told me he was your friend! That he couldn't bear to let you see him in his crippled state!"

"And you trusted him?!" Prowl growled.

"None of that matters now!" Optimus reminded, "Megatron's back. And assigning blame won't do anything to fix that. Megatron's on his way to the ship right now, and we have to stop him."

"How?" Bulkhead sighed, "I'm so banged up, I can barely move without hurting."

"And without Sari's key to help us, we don't stand a chance against one Decepticon," Prowl added, "Let alone three."

"Sari's key!" Sumdac snapped his fingers, "There may be some residual energy in my lab equipment!"

"It's worth a shot," Optimus said, "Let's get Bumblebee off the roof. I'm sure he could use a boost too. I just hope Ratchet can hold off the Decepticons until we get there."

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"Teletraan-1, run a complete security systems check," Ratchet activated the probe. The probe shot up and went through the layer of ice then scanned the area. Not far away, Blackarachnia could be seen with Sari.

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"Are you sure this is the right way to the Autobot ship?" Blackarachnia groaned.

"Sure as I was the last twenty times you asked me," Sari retorted.

"Word of advice kid, don't mouth off to an angry poisonous spider."

"Ooo, that supposed to scare me bug-lady?"

"No." Blackarachnia slammed her fist into the ice and pulled out a basketball sized chunk. "This is supposed to scare you!" She easily crushed the ice into snow with one hand. "Next I do that. It'll be your skull."

"Fine, maybe I won't take you to the AllSpark." Blackarachnia grabbed Sari's chin and pulled her closer.

"Oh, just give me an excuse kid." Blackarachnia looked down. "Wait a minute. Those are my tracks ahead! You've been leading us in a circle!"

"Um, oops?"

"Tell me where the AllSpark is and I may let you live!"

"I'll give you a hint. How long can you hold your breath?"

"It's underwater? I couldn't possibly survive!"

"Kinda what I was hoping for," Sari smiled.

"You miserable little—!" Before Blackarachnia had the chance to squish Sari, the ice began to crack. From below their feet, the Autobot's ship emerged. Sari bit Blackarachnia's thumb. Sari fell out of her grip and into Ratchet's. Ratchet carried her inside and flew them away. Blackarachnia struggled to stay on, but was blown away and fell screaming all the way down.

"I was keeping her distracted!" Sari blurted, "You believe me don't you?"

"Right now, I'm more concerned about the others," Ratchet said.

"No problem, we'll just fix 'em with my key. I mean, it's not like you lost my key or anything right?"

"Umm," Ratchet looked away uncomfortably.

"You lost my key?!"

"Well, they kinda broke my arm. Can't really, be blamed for that right?"

"I can't believe it! And after all that crud about me not being trusted with it!"

"If it's any consolation, I wasn't looking forward to this. Given the choice, I'd rather face down Megatron himself." Sari looked at the security screen and saw three Decepticons incoming. She recognized one of them. The one from her vision.

"Ratchet, that wouldn't happen to be Megatron would it?"