It's a great day in Jasper Nevada but it's also a very lucky day for team Prime because there medic has discovered something that will give them the advantage for a while."Optimus.,Your not going to believe this. I just pinpointed the location of the Decepticon warship." Says Ratchet. Hearing him say this has gotten everyone's attention.

"How did you penetrated their cloaking technology?" Asked Optimus prime.

"I didn't. I was experimenting with variable frequency wavelengths when I stumbled upon it. Even still, there ship must be experiencing some kind of electromagnetic breach." Says Ratchet.

"With Megatron deceased and the element of surprise." Says Arcee.

"We can cause so much damage." Says Grimlock

" you took the words right out of my mouth Grimlock." Says Bulkhead. The monitor suddenly picks up another ships location and it's Autobot Origin.

" Also on the same frequency, an Autobot emergency beacon." Says Ratchet.

"The Decepticons can wait. There may be Autobot in distress. Ratchet, bring your medical kit." Says Optimus.

" Can I come with you and Ratchet? It could be a trap and you might need some extra muscle just in case." Says Grimlock. Optimus thinks for a moment and then has come to a conclusion.

"You may accompany me and Ratchet on this mission Grimlock." Says Optimus. This made Grimlock happy.

Later

They arrive at the coordinates of the ships location and it just so happen to be in a desert." A crash landing. Buried here for centuries." Says Optimus. The walk over to the ship and when they eventually get there, Ratchet try's to make a opening for them with his blowtorch. He was about to start cutting but was Startled by the sound of metal tearing apart suddenly He looks over to his left and sees Grimlock tearing off some of the outer part of ships wall so they can get in. After he was done, Optimus walks in first and then Ratchet. When Grimlock walks in the unsteady ship starts moving. Grimlock then quickly gets out.

" Grimlock, I think it would be best for you to wait outside of the ship. I need you to keep a look out for any Decepticons." Says Optimus. Grimlock nods and then Optimus and Ratchet venture further into the ship. While they were exploring the ship, Grimlock was laying down in the sand and was making what miko called snow angels. But instead of snow, it's sand. Grimlock gets up and looks at his sand angel and it doesn't look good but Grimlock thinks it looks good. He then suddenly hear the sound of the ship shaking.

" I wonder what's taking them so long in there?" Said Grimlock. He looked at the hole he made for his leader and the medic so they could get in the ship. After a while Grimlock see's Optimus and Ratchet get of the ship. Grimlock walks over to them and sees a worried look on Ratchets face." You okay Ratchet? Is something wrong?" Asked Grimlock.

Ratchet looked at Grimlock." The ship has some sort of virus and some of it got on Optimus." Says Ratchet. Grimlock is shocked by this.Ratchet then calls for a ground bridge. Grimlock looks over at Optimus and can see some kind of rust forming near his optics and when he saw the rust he suddenly had many images going through his head. One of the images were a young femme looking Cybertronian and then another image appears with the same Cybertronian but with rust spreading on her. Another image appears and it was Megatron with a evil and wicked grin on his face as he was holding the ripped off head of the now non rusted Cybertronian from the previous images. The images in Grimlocks head fadeaway as the ground bridge appears and they all walk through it. Grimlock hopes that it's not what he thinks it is.

Later at the base

Optimus prime was laying on a berth and half of his face was starting to rust and both of his optics were flickering. Ratchet was using his equipment to find out what virus Optimus has. After Ratchet was done scanning Optimus, he looked at the readings."Cybonic plague. It's only contagious if contact is made with the infected energon."says Ratchet.

" What was a plague doing on an autobot spaceship?" Asked Miko.

"It's passengers were infected. The virus wiped out millions on Cybertron during the Great War." Says Arcee.

"Cybonic plague was engineered in the Decepticons Biological Warfare Program,by Megatron himself." Says Ratchet.

"You have a cure. Don't you?" Asked Raf.

"No...cure." Optimus says slowly.

"Optimus please. Save your strength." Says Ratchet.

" Actually there is a cure." Says Grimlock. Everyone looks at Grimlock with surprised looks.

"Are you certain that there's a cure." Asked Ratchet with a little hopefulness in his tone.

"I have seen it be used to cure somebot before. But that was a long time ago." Says Grimlock. As he said that the tone of his voice kinda sounded a little different. Everyone noticed his tone in his voice Changed to a kinda sad one but they all decided not to talk about right now.

"Do you know how to make it." Ratchet says quickly. Grimlock shakes his head no. Ratchet curses under his breath. Everyones hopes drop down a bit.

"There's only one bot that knows how to make the cure." Says Grimlock. Ratchet then looks at Grimlock.

" who?" Asked Ratchet.

" Megatron." When Grimlock said that name. The room got a little quiet.

" Are you sure no one else knows how to make the cure? Because it's not like we can ask Megatron. He's pushing up lugnuts." Says Bulkhead. Ratchet thinks for a moment and gets a idea.

"But, we might be able to access the Deceptikon database. For the moment we still have a fix on there warships location." Says Ratchet.

" Grimlock, come with." Says Arcee. Grimlock follows her.

" Arcee,Quickly." Says Ratchet.

One groundbridge later

Arcee and Grimlock jump out of the bridge and look at there surroundings and are being cautious." Let's start with the lab." Says Arcee. Grimlock nods and they quietly begin walking to the lab. When they get near the lab they see Knockout walk out. He stops for a moment And then shrugs his shoulders and walks away. The lab doors open again and Grimlock and Arcee walk in. Arcee starts typing on the computer to see if there's anything about the plague and if there's any information about the cure. While she did that, Grimlock starts looking around the room. While he was exploring the room, he looked through a window and saw something that made him very angry.

"Arcee. You need to see this." Says Grimlock. She stops typing and walks over to Grimlock.

"What is it?!" She says with a little anger in the tone of her voice. She looks through the lower window and gasps at what she sees. The doors open to reveal one of the most evilest and most vile beings of Cybertron. A warlord named Megatron. He is hooked up to life support equipment and is in a coma like stasis.

"What is it? What's going on?" Asked Ratchet.

"It's Megatron." Says Arcee. Ratchet doesn't believe what he is hearing from her.

"That's not possible." Stated Ratchet.

"Well I'm staring right at him. Good news is,Megatron isn't exactly staring back. He's critical. Hooked up to life support. Time to finish this once and for all." Says Arcee as she readies her blaster to kill Megatron.Grimlock transforms to Dinomode and is looking at Megatron with hatred and anger. Grimlock opens his jaws and was about to blast Megatron into melted scrap metal until Ratchet quickly stopped them.

"Wait! Don't!" Yelled Ratchet. This angered Arcee a little bit it angered Grimlock a lot.

"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't tear him apart and turn him into melted scrap metal!" Grimlock yelled Angrily. This surprised everyone because they have never heard or seen Grimlock like this.

"Megatron may be Optimus only hope for survival." Says Ratchet.

"What do you mean?" Asked Arcee.

"Does he Display brain activity?" Asked Ratchet. Arcee looks at the monitor and it shows that Megatron does display Brain Activity.

"Spiking hard. His sick mind is still at work." Arcee says Angrily.

"Perfect. Since you cannot find the cure from the Decepticon database. You must enter Megatrons brain to find the cure." Says Ratchet.

"Enter Megatrons brain?! Ratchet, are you out of your fragging mind?!" Yelled Arcee.

"How are we going to even get in his brain?" Asked Grimlock.

"The Decepticon laboratory should contain all the equipment you need for a cortical psychic patch." Says Ratchet.

"No way! Have ever even perform the procedure?!" Asked Arcee.

"No. But I have thoroughly studied the theoretical literature. Invented by Decepticons outlawed by Autobots." Says Ratchet.

"Woah. Can't we just haul Megatron through the Groundbridge and buy us some time to figure this out?" Asked Arcee.

"Time is the one thing that Optimus does not have!One of you must try this! I will not allow Optimus to pass knowing that Megatron outlived him!" Yelled Ratchet.

"Ratchet I would lay down my life for Optimus. Anytime, anywhere. But a mind body split." Says Arcee who was very fearful and uneasy about it. Grimlock knew he had to be the one to do it.

" I will do it Arcee." Says Grimlock.

"You will? Are you sure Grim?" Says Arcee who is a little worried for Grimlock. Grimlock nods and then transforms back to robot mode so he can be ready for the procedure.

Later

Arcee hooks up one end of the cortical psychic patch to Megatron and then makes her way to where she and Grimlock will be hiding with the other end of the patch in Her hand. Grimlock could barely fit in there but he somehow managed to fit in. Grimlock then gives her his usual grin and a thumbs up to indicate that he is ready." Ratchet. We're ready." Says Arcee.

" initiate cortical psychic patch."stays Ratchet.Arcee then plugs in the patch into the back of Grimlocks head and then his head shakes for a moment and then his optics go dark.

Later after being high and seeing rainbows ;)

Grimlock Moves his hands and see's that he can move. Grimlock then starts to walk around as he also looks around. Grimlock hasn't been here in a long time." This place looks like kaon. I haven't been here in a long time."Grimlock says to himself but the others can still hear him.

"Quickly Grimlock. You must find where information can be found in Megatron's mind." Says Ratchet.He nods and keeps walking until he reaches the main area. When Grimlock reached the main area and looked around. He sees someone very familiar. It's the greatest leader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime.

" Optimus?" Says Grimlock as he runs over to him. Grimlock was confused on how his leader was here.

"Grimlock, that is not Optimus. But a figment of Megatron's mind. It can not see or hear you." Says Ratchet. Grimlock then hears a very familiar and evil laugh. Grimlock looks at the source of the laughing and sees Megatron.

"Optimus prime. Your Autobot army's are defeated. Bow before your new master." Megatron says with a vile grin and he doesn't see Grimlock yet. The Fake Optimus turns around to look at Megatron and his blade comes out. Grimlock decided to move out off the way and wait for a opportunity to ether attack Megatron or get his attention.

"Never Megatron. One shall stand. One shall fall." Says fake Optimus.

"So be it." Says Megatron as his blade comes out and he jumps down. The both run at each other ready to attack. But Megatron simply slices through fake Optimus and he fades away like dust.

"What the scrap just happen?" Says Grimlock who is confused on what just happened because he knows that never happened. The Rocks Grimlock was next to moved and took form and become fake Optimus.

"Megatron.Your treachery ends here." Says fake Optimus as his blade comes out. Megatron puts his blade away and readies his cannon to fire and destroy fake Optimus. As Megatron was about to fire,Grimlock moves from where he is to try and stop Megatron from firing. But he failed and Fake Optimus fades away again. Megatron finally see Grimlock and walks over to him.

"I thought I got rid of you a long time ago Traitor. Along with the one who changed you and turned you soft and weak and turned you and the other dinobots against me." Megatron says with a sadistic grin.When he said that it made Grimlock really furious. Grimlock then charges at him to tackle him. But he goes through Megatron. This made Grimlock confused and angry. Grimlock then try's to punch Megatron but his fist goes through him. After a few more punches, Grimlock stops. Megatron then swings his blade down at him and it the goes through him."How can this be?!" Say Megatron as he try's to kill Grimlock again. Megatron stops and sees that his attacks have done nothing to Grimlock. He then walks around Grimlock." You're not wearing phase displacement armor. Your eyes track my movement so your not a hologram. And I do not believe in spirits. So tell me Dinobot. What are you?" Demanded Megatron.

" Megatron." Says fake Optimus. Grimlock turns around and see a fake Optimus,fake Bulkhead, and a fake Bumblebee. Grimlock walks up to them and waves at them.

"This is very weird." Says Grimlock. Megatron is angry that he doesn't know what's happening. He yells a mighty war cry and blasts the fakes into dust and Grimlock is the only one that remains.

"You are real. There were not!" Says Megatron. He thinks for a moment. He then realized what's happening. He chuckles." A cortical psychic patch. How unexpected. If this is my subconscious. Then what are you doing inside my head!" Yells Megatron. Grimlock doesn't answer him and this angers Megatrons." The only way you could've entered my mind is through a cortical psychic patch. But the question remains. What happened to me!" Demanded Megatron. Grimlock didn't answer him because he didn't know what happened to him. Megatron suddenly starts to remember what happened to him." The space bridge explosion. And yet if...if your in my head then that means I am not one with the all spark. So tell me Dinobot. Do I still function." Says Megatron.

"Grimlock we are out of time!" Says Ratchet.

"Look here Megatron. If I didn't need you, I would have ended you for what you did to her. But I need you alive for now because Some one has got the Cybonic plague and I need the cure so I can save them ." Says Grimlock.

"Her? Oh, you mean that weak and pathetic little-" before Megatron could say anything else, Grimlock transformed to Dinomod and released a loud and powerful roar at Megatron.

"Don't you ever call her that! She was the most nicest, kindest and important bot in my life and you took her away from me!" Yelled Grimlock. All the Autobots and humans were both shocked from what Grimlocks outburst of anger and at what he said. There were also curious on who he is talking about.Grimlock growls at Megatron who is unfazed by this.

"What was her name again Dinobot?" Megatron says with a sadistic grin.

"Her name was Slash!" Says Grimlock. He then sighs."You better Just give me the cure to the Cybonic plague so I can save my friend." Says Grimlock as he transforms back.

"And who might I asks is the one who caught the plague?" Asked Megatron.Grimlock doesn't say anything and then Megatron begins to think who might have got. He then realized who has it.

"Optimus." Says Megatron as he starts laughing. "Such irony! But After ages of endless battles. The mighty Optimus prime fell from a simple virus from distant past." Says Megatron. Grimlock is now a little more mad." And what makes you think I would save the life of my oldest enemy!" Says Megatron.

"Megatron. Your treachery end h-" fake Optimus was blasted to dust. Grimlock then had a idea on how to get the cure.

"You will get what you want most if you help me save Optimus life." Says Grimlock.

"Oh? And what is it that I want most Dinobot." Asked Megatron

"To slay Optimus by your own hand." Says Grimlock.

"Did you not see? I do slay Optimus by my own hand at will. Whenever I desire." Says Megatron.

"If you let the plague virus kill the real Optimus. Then you will never get the chance to kill him your self." Stated Grimlock. Grimlock didn't want to say that but he needed to so he can get the cure for Optimus. Megatron begins to think.

"After our deep history together and To not watch the spark leave Optimus eyes with my very own." Says Megatron.

"Will you give me the cure then?" Asked Grimlock.

"Well played Dinobot." Says Megatron. He opens his hand and it reveals the formula to make the cure." The chemical formula for the cure you seek. Not that I expect you to know how read it." Says Megatron. Grimlock reaches out to get it but then Megatron closes his hand and it disappears.

"What the Scrap?" Says Grimlock. Who is a little confused at why Megatron made it disappear.

"Not yet." Says Megatron.

"Why?" Asked Grimlock.

"And how am I to accomplish terminating Optimus as you proposed while I'm trapped here like a perpetual day dream. Once you release me from this prison. You will have the cure. You must guarantee my recovery or Optimus fades to gunmetal gray. The real Optimus." Says Megatron. Grimlock doesn't know if he should agree to the deal or not. Grimlock was about to give Megatron his answer, but then all sudden the world around them starts to crumble and turn to dust." You were watch. You tricked me!" Yells Megatron. Grimlock looks down at his hands and sees that he his fading away." Nooo!" Yelled Megatron. Grimlock then was almost completely gone. Megatron reaches out to grab him." Take me with you! Take me!" His words echoed as he himself also disappeared.

Out of Megatrons mind

Arcee had her weapon ready to fire. Grimlock eyes start to flicker quickly and then they stop flickering." I'm back." Grimlock says excitedly. Starscream kneels down and sees the Decepticon traitor Grimlock and Autobot Arcee.

"What in?!"Says Starscream. The ground bridge opens next to them and Grimlock walks through it. "Intruders!" Yells Starscream as his arm transforms into a blaster.

"Allow me." Says Arcee as she fires her blaster. Her shot hit Megatrons main life support line. She jumps into the bridge as it closes.

Later

Optimus has received the cure and is slowly recovering. Ratchet helps Optimus up."Thats it. Steady." Says Ratchet. Everyone starts cheering for Optimus.

"Please. Reserve the hero's welcome for my physician and to our newest Autobot." Says Optimus. Everyone was cheering. Grimlock was shocked by this but was also very happy.

"Oh yeah! I mean oh yeah. Thank you sir." Says Grimlock as he waved his arms in the air and then did a soldier pose. Most of team prime laughed at what he did. They all still remember what he and Megatron talked about and they will talk with Grimlock about it later if he wants to. But for now They all continue to cheer for Grimlock but what they don't realize that something is wrong with Grimlock. And then inside of Grimlocks head is the voice of Megatron.

" I'm out. Or should I say...in." Megatron then unleashes a evil laugh.

(( I will tell more about the femme that was important to Grimlock later down the road.))