AC: Here's the second duty of Hercules. The Insecticon will have a good and a bad surprised.

Chapter 6: Hercules can't be in the Nemesis

Arcee opened her optic as she woke up from her recharge. She looked around and she saw no one. She wondered if Hercules was in her room. She looked at the ceiling and she saw the giant Hercules Beetle recharging peacefully. He pointed his head at the direction of the entrance and tapped his helm with one of his insect paw a few times. He eventually started making sound that he was getting out of recharge. His red optic shined and he climbed down. He transformed and stretched his articulation and dropped his head.

"I'm sorry. I'm your room again. I really tried," Hercules said dropping his head.

Arcee sighted. She was expecting this, so she wasn't angry or disappointed. "Let's go. Ultra Magnus gives us another mission with Smokescreen,"

"Who's Smokescreen?" Hercules asked.

"The one who wasn't against you when you met the wreckers," Arcee told him.

"Wreckers? Oh yeah! My Hive Master told me fought a lot of wreckers on Cybertron during the war," Hercules said.

"I think it will be a good idea to never mention this to them," Arcee suggested.

The Insecticon nodded and they walked into the command room. Smokescreen and Ultra Magnus were present.

"Hello there Arcee," Smokescreen said.

"Hi there. Looks like we are with you today," Arcee told him.

"That's good. I heard about what happen. You really hurt a lot of vehicons. Don't worry. This time, we are only fifty and they are more open-minded that those with Bulkhead," Smokescreen said.

"They are warned about you and will be more patient," Ultra Magnus said.

"Thank you sir. Where are we going?" Arcee asked.

"We will be in the Nemesis. It seemed that Starscream was detected near the ruined of Vos. We will arrest him and put him in jail," Smokescreen answered.

"Exactly. I want you to bring him online. Arcee, do not offline him. It's an order," Ultra Magnus said.

"I understand," she replied, She frown her optics after this.

"Insecticon. If you want to protect her, you have to make sure she won't offline Starscream or she'll be in trouble," Ultra Magnus warned Hercules.

"Understood. I'll do anything to protect her," Hercules replied.

"He had a designation now Ultra Magnus. It's Hercules," Arcee told them.

"Understood," Ultra Magnus opened the Ground Bridge. "The vehicons are almost all treated for the accident, the damage are all minor."

"Good," Arcee replied.

The groundbridge opened. The three walked through and Ultra Magnus was left alone. He put his servo over his chestplate.

"I hope Hercules will succeed this time."

When the trio passed through, they were in the command room of the ship with vehicons checking the system and piloting it. They looked at the three new comers and they nodded at them. They gave the Insecticon a suspicious glare. Hercules vented nervously.

The vehicons continued their work, but one of them walked near the Insecticon.

"Are you the Insecticon who injured my friends?" the vehicon asked.

"Yes. I'm sorry. It was an accident," Hercules replied.

"Do not worry. I saw the image and know it is an impossible accident. My designation is Tek. I was a friend of an Insecticon during the war and I know you aren't salvage beast as some of us said," he raised his servo. The Insecticon grabbed it and closed it gently and shook it, learning from Bumblebee mistake.

"I'm Hercules," he said with a smile.

"Okay. Now that the presentation is over, we should focus on the mission. Can you bring the ship to Vos?" Smokescreen asked.

"Yes. It won't be any problem. Starscream will not be able to fly away against the Nemesis," a vehicon replied.

"Hercules is out only flying and he cannot chasse a plane sadly," Arcee commented.

"We have to wait until we reach Vos," Smokescreen said.

"Come on Hercules. I'll show you around," Tek said picked the Insecticon servo.

Hercules looked at his queen.

"You can go. There's nothing dangerous here," Arcee said.

Hercules nodded and followed Tek around. The Insecticon could feel inside the presence of his kind a while ago, but he knew they were gone.

A door opened and there was a lot of screen and a vehicon inside.

"This is where you can see everywhere inside the nemesis. Soundwave used to be here until he disappeared in the shadowzone," Tek said.

Hercules looked at the camera and saw his queen locking at a very small object. "What is my queen holding?"

"That's a picture. It's an object she holds and considers important. It's her and her partner on Earth. His name is Jack Darby," Tek explained. "I almost go him long ago. It was the time where Arcee and Jack first met. Bumblebee gives me a big beating. My partner died a few months later when Megatron threw him off the ship by accident. Anyway, she considered this picture extremely important so don't touch it."

"I understand," Hercules replied. He wondered who this Jack is, but Tek already guided him somewhere else and the question was gone from his processor.

They passed near two vehicons who gave them a judgemental look with their expressionless faceplate. Hercules looked down, but Tek tapped gently his helm. "Don't worry about them. They don't know you or your kind like me."

Hercules didn't look up when he felt something tackling him. He looked at that hit his chestplate and he saw Tek hugging him. "Come on Hercules. Don't be down by them."

Hercules nodded and the vehicon released him. Tek continued showing around when they received a message.

"-This is Arcee. We almost reach Vos.-"

"Understood my queen," Hercules replied.

They turned around and marched back.

"Why didn't we pick the bridge directly to Vos?" Hercules asked.

"Because Starscream might tried to escape when he saw the bridge. Also, the Nemesis can chase him in the sky. We mostly have grounder and the autobots don't want us to be offline," Tek replied.

"Oh," Hercules nodded.

"There's something I always wanted to do, but no Insecticons every let me to it," Tek said.

"What is it?"

"I want to ride on. When you transform and fly in the air on an Insecticon back," Tek said.

Hercules looked at him. His optic gave a dim light and grunted: "We don't like having someone on our back."

"Don't worry! I never jumped on any Insecticon back. I prefer to ask the authorisation," Tek replied.

"That's good," Hercules said. He found Tek a little strange, but he preferred hanging out with his queen or this strange vehicon than anyone hating him.

They reached the command room and they watched Vos. Hercules knew it was once a big and glorious city with skyscraper. Only one skyscraper remained in Vos after the way and it was covered with holes.

"Why would Starscream hide there?" Smokescreen asked out loud.

"It is the place he was created," Arcee replied. "With what Predaking said and his tortured session, maybe he wanted to find a place he considered safe."

"Deep in his processor, he returned to his home," Smokescreen finished.

"Alright. Now where is-" Arcee was cut by a vehicon.

"Smokescreen. We detect Starscream presence near a ruin at the north of the city,"

"Okay. Let's move to the north. He must surely see us right now and-" Smokescreen was cut by the vehicon.

"He's moving fast from his location. He tries to escape us," the vehicon said.

"Do not worry autobot. I got this," a vehicon with a green visor painted on his faceplate said. "I'll show you something the decepticon never gave the chance. He's far away. I'll activate the blaster,"

"Wait. We have to bring him online," Smokescreen said.

"I'll just aim one of his wings and he won't fly away. Aiming and...fire!" the vehicon said.

No one could stop him. The Nemesis fired and the laser moved at the direction of Starscream. It hit his left wing and crashed on the ground.

"I got him!" the vehicon shouted in victory.

"That's incredible," a vehicon said.

The Insecticon and the two autobot mouthplate figuratively detached from their faceplate. They said nothing while the Nemesis caught up with slowly Starscream.

"It's time put him in prison," Smokescreen said.

Hercules smiled. His processor was telling him that he was succeeding in his mission.

"I won't fail this time!" Hercules shouted. He hit by accident Tek who hit another vehicon. It was a vehicon domino until one felt on the pilot. The Nemesis started to flew at the direction of the ground and everyone screamed when the alert was send.

"HANG ON!" Smokescreen screamed loudly.

"SORRY!" Hercules screamed. He hanged against a panel and grabbed Arcee against him. Tek shouted and grabbed the tank plate of the Insecticon.

"AWESOME!" Tek screamed happily.

Meanwhile, Starscream was standing up and grunted in pain.

"No! They're going to capture me! I cannot believe they hit me right in the wing! Argh! They could have offline me!" Starscream heard a loud sound and he turned behind him. He saw the Nemesis coming right at me. "DOES THE AUTOBOT LOST THEIR PROCESSOR?!" Starscream ran away while screaming pitifully.

The Nemesis was coming closer to him. He looked behind him and the Nemesis crashed the ground, but it kept coming at him. The wave made Starscream felt on the ground. He turned around and saw a spiky part of the Nemesis coming at him.

"AAHH!" Starscream screamed without stopping and closed his optics while the Nemesis kept coming closer. The ex-second in command waited to be impaled, but nothing happened. He opened his optics and he saw the spike at one inch from his pelvis plate. Starscream oiled himself and he felt on the ground, in stasis.

Inside the Nemesis, everyone stood up while Tek continued screaming joyfully.

"That was awesome!" Tek screamed.

"Are you mad! The stupid Insecticon might offline some of us!" a vehicon replied.

"Sorry," Hercules said. He didn't try to say it was an accident. He knew they won't believe him.

"This is Smokescreen. How's everyone?"

"I receive the report. Nemesis undamaged and no one in the Nemesis is injured," the vehicon replied. He then looked at the report. "PRIMUS! HOW'S THAT POSSIBLE?!"

The vehicons and the autobots were traumatized by it except Hercules who was still in his guilty trip.

"It's my fault," he whined.

Arcee was the first to recover and saw Starscream in stasis.

"I'm going to arrest him," she said. Hercules saw her walking alone and joined her.

He followed her. They were outside and looked below. It was a little too high for Arcee to jump. Hercules transformed in his Hercules beetle form.

"Want me to guide you down my queen?" Hercules asked.

Arcee heard his voice and he wasn't excited as before. She sighted: "It was an accident. And yes thank you." There was some annoyance in her voice box when she said it was an accident. It happened twice after all.

She climbed on the Insecticon who flew down. Tek appeared and shouted: "You're so lucky Arcee!"

Hercules landed on the ground and Arcee climbed off. She walked closed to Starscream, who was still in Stasis. She walked closed and glared at him. She remembered that he was the one who killed Cliffjumper. She was thinking about finishing him when she felt the servo of Hercules on her shoulder. She looked in his optics and gave her a silent question.

"Do not worry. I'm not going to offline him," she sighted. "Can you bring him in the Nemesis?"

"Of course my q- Arcee," Hercules replied.

Arcee face palm when the Insecticon still made the mistakes of almost calling her queen.

Hercules picked Starscream on his shoulder and they received a communication.

"-Arcee. What's Starscream status?-" Smokescreen asked.

"He's in Hercules servo. We are going back in the Nemesis," Arcee answered.

"-We'll open the bridge in a minute. The energy is coming back,-" Smokescreen said.

"It's my fault we crashed," Hercules told Arcee. "I failed you once again my q- Arcee."

"Don't worry. It was really an accident. I don't know how it was possible, but you did three things no one could and without any bot offline. Now, no vehicons are injured in the crash. After so many autobots and decepticons offline during the war, it's strange we suddenly have no one offline in such catastrophe," Arcee commented.

The bridge opened.

"Once we are inside, you will watch Starscream closely and make sure he won't escape. I want to keep him in your optic," Arcee asked.

"I will my queen," Hercules replied.

They returned to the Nemesis.

AC: Here's the end of chapter 6. Hercules caused trouble again.

What do you think of Tek?

Since Hercules might eventually pair with Arcee, depending if the survey gives him victory, he will need a partner to help him and I decided that Tek will be.

Who's Hercules Hive Master?

Chapter 7: Hercules guards too well.