A/N: Hello all, sorry for the delay, focusing on my other story to try and finish it before ME3 is released so I've sorta neglected this one(not abandoned though).

Astrosecond~ .498 seconds, milli-cycle~1 sec, cycle~1 min, breem~ 8.3 minutes, mega-cycle~1 hour, meta-cycle~1\2 hours, solar cycle~1 day, day~ 20 hours, orbital cycle~ 1 month, gigacycle~ 1 year, deca-cycle~10 years, vorn~ 83 years, stellar cycle~400 year, mechanometer~ 1 meter, vun~ hectometer, hic~ 1 kilometer

Thoughts, 'binary code', (alien language), "talking"

C-Sec agents kept their weapons on the Autobots as Optimus and Megatron talked. "What lies have you told for them to think we are enemies?"

Megatron gloated, "I have not told any lies, Optimus. All I have spoken was the truth. How our war has left our home, Cyberton, unlivable. And how the Autobots were the cause of the war…"

As Megatron and Optimus continued to fight with words, Dropshot was tempted to send his fist into Megatron's face, "Why are we putting up with this ma'am?"

Vibes quietly answered, "This is Optimus' plan. All we have to do is make sure no foul play happens."

Suddenly without warning, the sounds of battle echoed within the Ark as pounding soon followed. A section of the hull was forcefully being pushed opened until a fist broke through. The fist then retreated before three purple bolts flew out and a body jumped through shouting in a language comprehensible to everyone, "Die pathetic Autobots! For the glory of the Decepticons I will extinguish your sparks as soon as I…" The blue bot spotted his lord, "A thousand apologies Lord Megatron. I ripped this language data from the guard watching over my cell before I terminated him."

Megatron tried to assure the organics, "I have never seen this individual in my life."

The evidence was quickly staking against him as the Cybertronian had two a Decepticon symbol branded onto his chest plating. "My lord, it is I, Counterpunch. I was captured while gathering intel about the Omega Key. The Autobots had since then replaced me with an imposter, spying on you and you feeding you false information. In order to redeem myself before me termination, I will extinguish the spark of Optimus Prime and present you his head." Just as Counterpunch lifted his head, a missile was in his face and made contact. Much of the head was destroyed but it had enough parts and energy to ask before permanently shutting down, "W-wh-why…"

The origin of the missile came from Soundwave's shoulder cannon. As the steam continued to emit from the recently fired pod, all Soundwave could respond with was, "Weapon malfunction detected. Shutting down all weapon systems. Transmitting report to maintenance bay. Will request full diagnostics scan upon return to the Nemesis."

Dropshot couldn't help but turn to Vibes, "That's a load of bolts."

Executor Pallin walked up to the Autobots, "It seems you we have a conflict of information. Do you think you might be able to say what really happened at Altihex?"

Pallin only set off a chain reaction on as Dropshot, confronted the Decepticon leader, "Altihex? Altihex! You dare dishonor the valiant bots who died defending the Neutrals from your Decepticons?"

Vibes tried to restrain him, "Dropshot, don't…"

"I'm sorry ma'am, but I won't let anyone, not even this Deceptiscum, dishonor them…"

High above on one of the support structures, the cloaker Starscream had dispatched reached his destination. As he was setting up the sniper rifle, he noticed an Autobot was putting his fingers on Megatron's person. You dare touch our great leader, Autobot? The Decepticon didn't have a clear shot at Optimus, but this rather rude Autobot's spark was in the cloaker's scope.

"You are sorely mistaken, organic. Megatron here declared the destruction of Altihex as a message to say no one was above being attacked by the Cons." Just as Dropshot was about to poke Megatron's chest again a flash went through his chest, as a gaping hole about the size of a krogan appeared. "Ah frag…" The momentum pushed Dropshot over the small walkway into a free-fall toward one of the Ward arms below.

Vibes tried to grab Dropshot's arm even though the shot was clean through his spark chamber, yet she saw Dropshot actually trying to grab on. "Dropshot!"

Before Vibes lost her balance in her attempt to save Dropshot, Optimus grabbed her. "Don't." Optimus turned back the Ark, "Aerialbots!" Even seeing the shot going through his spark chamber, Optimus was going to try and save Dropshot's body.

Out of the Ark's hangar jumped three bots as they quickly transformed into their jet form to try and help their falling brother. As the trio few after Dropshot, Vibes pulled herself together as she pulled out her rifle and attached her scope as she took aim in the air. Even as the organics turned all of their weapons on her, she started to listen for the vibrations. She detected the sniper reloading as she adjusted her aim, "Got ya." Without warning Vibes fired. She immediately contacted the aerialbot leader, "Silverbolt, I've taking the sniper down. Grab his shell and show us his symbol."

Silverbolt flew out just as the energy bolt hit something hidden in the support structure. Sparks were shooting out of nowhere as it suddenly fell. Silverbolt saw the sparks and transformed to capture it. The body slowly revealed itself to be a Decepticon cloaker with a sniper rifle.

Before Silverbolt could return with the shell, Slipstream was targeting one of the aerialbots with her null-ray attached to one of her arms. This should do it. See if you can save your dead friend with only one Autobot. After the shot was fired, Slipstream acted like Soundwave before her, "Oh my, it seems my weapons are also on the fritz. Soundwave, mind checking on my systems when we get back to the ship?"

"Affirmative."

The aerialbots were racing to try and grab Dropshot from his fall but Jetfire detected an energy bolt heading directly for Air Raid's engine. He moved to take the hit as he lost stability. Air Raid noticed this act of sacrifice as he pulled up, "Jetfire, hold on!" Air Raid transformed in midflight as he tried to help stabilize him. "Sorry Powerglide, look like you have to be the hero this time."

Powerglide then kicked it into overdrive, "Afterburners don't fail me now!"

"Jetfire, are you alright?"

Air Raid had used his body to help level Jetfire, "Yeah, now I am. Thanks mate."

"Don't mention it. Think you can return to the Ark?"

Air Raid got off him as he tested his thrusters. "Yeah, I should be fine now. You better help Dropshot before it's too late."

"Way ahead of ya," Air Raid shouted as he was already diving down to try and catch up with Powerglide.

Powerglide was pushing his engines to the extreme far further then he had ever done, but he wasn't going to let his friend crash and die if he could help it. He was a few mechanometers from Dropshot before he transformed into his robot form and tried to grab Dropshot. "Come on buddy! If you can hear me, reach out!"

Miraculously Dropshot seemed to have heard as his hand reached enough for Powerglide to get a solid grip. He immediately pushed his thrusters as hard as they would go as he tried to decelerate their decent. Air Raid arrived to grab Dropshot open arm, "Sorry I'm late. But you know me."

Now both aerialbots were trying to stop Dropshot from crashing into one of the Ctiadel's arms filled with organics. Both of their thrusters were near the verge of exploding when they were finally able to counteract Dropshot's decent velocity. "Hold on buddy, we'll get you back to the Ark."

As they were slowly flying back up, Air Raid noticed something. "Hey Powerglide, is it just me, or is that hole going through his spark chamber?"

Powerglide couldn't see it but he had his doubts, "Well, he did reach out to grab my hand, so he must still be functioning. Maybe it's just close to his spark chamber, or his spark chamber is located somewhere else. All I know is Dropshot is still online. That's enough for me."

Silverbolt returned with the body in hand. It's was a Decepticon cloaker. He was probably ordered to kill you Optimus. I think Dropshot poking Megatron made him switch his targets."

Megatron seemed to have an idea as to where the order came from, but clarified, "If I'd wish to take you down Optimus, it would be me alone. Not some sneak attack. It would not be honorable."

Vibes shouted back at Megatron, "You Decepticons know nothing of honor."

Optimus stopped her, "That's enough."

"Optimus…"

Prime pulled his arm back, "We cannot force the organics to choose a side, and we should not stay here for much longer so our battles do not endanger the lives of the organics who call this station home. Autobots, we are leaving."

Having enough of this, Commander Shepard exited the Ark as he questioned the Autobot leader, "What, so that's it? You're just going to leave, just like that!"

"To stay would endanger lives. Lives that have nothing to do with our war."

Shepard disagreed, "No, we became involved when they attacked us and the refinery on Caleston."

Thane walked in as he assured the two leaders, "Don't worry. Keep the Deceptions talking a bit longer. We'll find a way to prove their guilt."

Optimus still didn't like it, "Are you certain about this?"

To which Thane asked, "Is there any other choice?"

Prime nodded to Thane before returning to speak with Megatron again. "Megatron, what will the Decepticons do?"

Megatron knew what he wanted, but he also knew how to word it, "All I want is to restore Cybertron to its former glory. Bring life back to the planet our war devastated."

As Megatron continued with his explanation, Mirage and a team of cloakers snuck Commander Shepard, Thane and Miranda as his cloaking ability masked their leave from the area. Vibes even started to resonate with vibrations to prevent Soundwave's sensors from detecting them as they left the Ark.

The team reached the Nemesis undetected and started to search for a way in. Mirage and the others knew the Nemesis has never sustained such damage before and was armed with more turrets then currently visible. It was likely the Decepticons are projecting holographic distortions around the Nemesis to allude to them being 'explorers'.

Mirage found their way in, a door way on the Nemesis was still open with a few C-Sec officers guarding the area. The cloaked team was easily able to pass them, now it was the Decepticons they had to worry about. Mirage worked his way to the bridge as they released Shepard and his team. "Alright, now find something solid against the Decepticons and let's get out before anyone notices."

Shepard's team scoured the terminals of the bridge carefully sifting through the data for anything. Miranda found something, security footage of a jet Decepticon handing a sniper rifle to a cloaker along with data on their 'invasion' of Caleston. "Well this looks like it's enough to have these Decepticons thrown off the Citadel."

One of the cloaker returned from watching the hallway with a warning, "We've got to go! Inbound Deceptijunk walking our way."

The cloaker team grabbed the organics as they moved out of the way and stood still. The Deception looked into the bridge as his optic detected nothing. A voice shouted out from down the hall to the massive 'one-eyed' giant, "Hey Lugnut, get back to the hangar before one of those organics hear you stomping about."

The massive green and purple Decepticon turned about as he shouted back, "You cannot tell me what to do. Only Lord Megatron." Lugnut took one last look back into the bridge for a moment before he wondered away.

"I don't see why we continue to debate when you Autobots cannot proved any actual proof."

"Until now…" The voice came from behind Megatron as the Decepticons turned to see. The blue aristocrat, Mirage, proudly strut past Megatron as the other cloakers followed with Commander Shepard and Miranda on one cloaker's shoulders. Shepard activated his omni-tool, "The Decepticons are as evil as the Autobots implied."

An audio recording started to play, "You, Cloaker. Move to a position so you could take Optimus Prime's head in the name of Lord Megatron."

"It will be done in the name of Megatron and the Decepticons."

Megatron could no longer hide his contempt, "That idiot…" Megatron had to quickly turn this situation around, "Starscream is a fool, and he thinks like a fool. He hoped that eliminating Optimus would neutralize the threat the Autobots posed to everyone on this station."

Shepard continued to work with his omni-tool as he replayed another recording, "Well that's not what you said on Caleston."

"Lord Megatron, we have found the organics. They are hiding in a bunker about half a hic away. Can we crush them now, Lord Megatron?"

"No Bonecrusher, not yet. We may need the worms to access or unlock something. But after we find this new energy source and create a large supply of energon cubes, we will destroy this facility and all the organics in it."

Pallin signaled his agents to turn their weapons to the Decepticons. "Well it seems you were lying to us after all, Megatron."

With nothing left to lose, Megatron took aim at Optimus' chest as his fusion cannon was about to fire. Meir astroseconds before the fusion cannon fired, a larger grey and gold Autobot smashed his way through the Ark's hull as he grabbed Megatron's arm and threw off his aim. The cannon fired off into deep space as the Autobot snarled, "Megatron, me Grimlock say time we settle score. Finally see who stronger fighter is."

Soundwave grabbed for his rifle to gun down Grimlock. Just before the rifle was to his head, Grimlock toss Megatron's arm out as he slammed his fists into the ground and transformed into his new form, a metal tyrannosaurus. Grimlock met Soundwave's weapon with his teeth, biting it in two as he busted into a sprint and rammed into the Decepticon officer through the wall continued into the Citadel. Megatron shouted, "Soundwave! Lockdown the Citadel! Decepticons, attack!"

Grimlock was still wrestling with yet he was still able to call out to his team, "Dynobots! Smash Decepticons!"

Out of the hole Grimlock had created, a three-horned Ceratopsinae, with a similar color scheme to Grimlock but with more red, was at ramming speed as it was aiming for Slipstream's legs. The Decepticon easily dodged the oncoming brute as she jumped off the walkway and transformed into her jet form. A new threat soon gave chase to Slipstream out of the Ark. A pterosaur with the same colors as the Ceratopsinae gave chase. Megatron took a potshot at Optimus before fleeing the area.

As Sludge and Snarl gave chase, Prowl could only hate the sudden change, "Damn it, Grimlock. Jazz get your team and the organic team ready to move. Autobots, prepare to engage!"

As Optimus gave chase to Megatron, Vibes reentered the Ark to help. She transformed into her car as she opened her door, "Welcome aboard Tali'Zorah." Legion and Kasumi entered a red and white race car named Override. Shepard took the others and joined Executor Pallin and his C-Sec agents to help evac the civilians and politicians as the other Autobots fought off the Decepticons. Jazz held his team back for a few cycles before they too left the Ark to complete their mission.

The eight vehicle team zoomed off into the Citadel as they drove to the closest access point. As they entered the Presidium, they saw the carnage had already ravaged much of the area, with parts and shells of Cybertronians littering the area. Landmine spotted unwanted company, "Deceptiscrap on our six."

Landmine used his brakes as he spun around and transformed. He used his hand to help stop himself as the tow half of his truck latched onto his back and the treads attached to his arms to become shoveled claws. Jazz stopped as he shouted, "Landmine, what are you doing?"

Landmine grabbed his tow arm as his feet deployed stabilizers into the floor as he took aim at the two seekers. "I've got these piles of scraps. Keep those organics safe!"

Jazz signaled to the others to continue on. "Don't do anything reckless."

"You know me."

"Yeah, that's the point." Jazz then zoomed off as he rejoined the others of his team.

The two seekers noticed the Autobot as they were still ready for more fighting, "Hey Thrust, I think this Autobot wants to play."

"Then we wouldn't want to disappoint. I'll cover you Ramjet." Thrust opened fire on Landmine as the Autobot protected his face and body with one of his heavily armored arm. Thrust immediately pulled out as Ramjet appeared from his shadow ready to smash into Landmine.

Even with his feet clamped to the ground, Landmine was able to maneuver himself just slightly just enough to only graze Ramjet's wingtips. Landmine quickly turned back as he launched his hook at Ramjet, latching onto the Con. "Let go of me!"

Thrust kept his distance as Ramjet tried to pull away. "What's the matter, Ramjet? Autobot caught your engines?"

"Just shut up and get him off me!" Before Thrust could aid his fellow seeker, Landmine's winch pulled against Ramjet in his attempts to break free. At Ramjet's peek thrust, Landmine released his hook causing the seekers to crash into one another, falling to the ground as a ball of fire.

Landmine released his drills laughing, "That's what you get for messing with us."

Before Landmine could boast any further, a painful sensation started to tickle his back. The pain became very powerful until his spark had bursted out of his chassis. A moment after his spark bust out, a slender purple arm started to appear as the nails of the fingers tapped against the spark. Jazz and the others detected this disturbing act and stopped.

Slipstream started to squeeze on the spark as she started to whisper into Landmine's audio receptor. "I love the sound Autobot sparks make while I slowly crush them into dust," testing the limits of Landmine's spark as she continued to tighten her grip.

Through the pain Landmine turned his head to the others of the team, "Autobots! Roll out!" Slipstream immediately finished off the Autobot as the remnants of the spark scattered into the air. Slipstream pulled her arm out of the lifeless shell as she turned to Vibes with a smirk on her face. Slipstream clearly saw the other Autobots and had superior firepower compared to the team as a whole. But instead she transformed and left without alerting the other Cons about them.

Jazz stopped Vibes and the others from following. "Come on bots, we can't stop now! We can't let Landmine's sacrifice go to waste. Besides it's obviously a trap. We'll recover his shell, but now is not the time."

A/N: I really like Landmine, but Slipstream wasn't going to let the killers of her fellow seekers walk away scott free. Now the Decepticons are on the offensive and the Autobots must fight to save organics who dispise them for simply being. Can one truly save those who do not wish to be saved?