As the Group was talking to the kids about the keys and what's been going on, There was a notification from the monitors, Ratchet checking it out. "It's Dreadwing. And he wants to meet..."
"You think he wants to change sides like I did?" Asked Grimlock as he looks at the monitors for a bit before looking at Ratchet.
"I doubt that. It's probably a trap." Said Bulkhead.
They all went through the groundbridge, Dreadwing walking over. "I'm not here to fight... I'm here to give you this." He put down a huge hammer.
"The Forge of Solus Prime?" Arcee was suspicious.
"Wait really? But why?" Asked Grimlock as he steps forward and grabs the hammer. He holds it on his shoulder.
"Don't hold it grim! It could be rigged to blow!" Said Bulkhead as he keeps his weapons pointed at Dreadwing.
Dreadwing ignores him and decided to tell them all why he's doing this."Megatron... he's insane." Dreadwing stated and Smokescreen scoffed.
"You only noticed that now?"
"No. I have been watching his declining sanity so foolishly, waiting for assurance that Megatron knows what he's doing... but it never came. I no longer want to be part of the decepticons."
He turned away from them. "I implore you to stop Megatron... use the Forge wisely."
He was about to leave.
Grimlock puts a hand on on his shoulder." Wait, before you leave, I wanna talk with you. You know, Ex-con to Ex-Con." He said with a grin. He then turns back and tosses the Forge to Bulkhead.
He caught it, but then fell down."He makes it so easy." He then struggled to hold it as he gets up.
"What do you wish to discuss?" He raised an optic ridge.
"I wanna talk about what you plan on doing now. If you go back then you might get killed." Said Grimlock as he sits down on a big rock.
"I know and I've decided to not go back. I will wait for the right moment to kill Starscream for what he did to my brother. But for now I am going to find a place to camp for awhile. But if you ever need my assistance, don't hesitate to call." He hands him a device that will contact him. "Farewell, Autobots." He transformed and flew off.
Later at Base...
Grimlock stares at the device before putting it away. He then turns to Optimus as he starts walking over." What do we do now Optimus?"
"We must locate the Omega Lock before Megatron does and secure it so that we may discover the keys." He explained.
"There are no more Iacon encryptions to decode... this lock could be anywhere!" Ratchet exclaimed.
"The Lock is on Cybertron... that was the last thing Alpha Trion said to me."
"Why didn't you tell us Optimus?" Asked Bulkhead who didn't understand why Optimus would keep this from the group.
"Alpha Trion wished for me not to..." He explained before leaving with the Forge.
"Uh, Optimus, what are you gonna do with it ?" Asked Grimlock as he looks at him.
Optimus remained silent, leaving the room.
"Is it just me or is Optimus acting really weird...?" Arcee asked, looking over at Grim.
"Yeah. I noticed that as well. Maybe he just tense about what's happening?" Grimlock suggested.
"How come Optimus didn't trust us?" Bulkhead felt a bit hurt that he was keeping things from them.
"If he told us- the cons would've extracted it from my head." Smokescreen explained.
"I guess that makes sense." Said Grimlock. He then sits down on the ground, wondering how long it will take for Optimus to get back.
Later...
"This is incredible..." Ratchet was checking their space bridge's systems, seeing how every aspect of it has been upgraded.
He then got an alert from the monitors. "High energon readings coming from outside of Earth's atmosphere. The decepticons are using there space bridge."
"If they are then the cons know where the lock thing is." Grimlock realizes this. That was very bad.
"The Element of surprise remains to our favor." Optimus explained. "Gear up."
Everyone starts grabbing a artifact to use, except grimlock. He walks over to Optimus who is holding the forge and the broken star saber." Hey Optimus, can I take the hammer after your done with it?" He asked
"I trust you with it, Grimlock." He nodded. "You're the one that can use it to its full potential."
Optimus fixed up the Star Saber and then surrounded the Forge of Solus Prime to Grimlock to wield.
"Autobots, roll out!" He transformed with the sword on his back, all going through the groundbridge.
Grimlock was confused by what he meant but shrugs as he runs into the groundbridge with the hammer.
Later...
The decepticons were following there mighty leader to wherever he was taking them.
He looked up to see a giant hunk of floating scrap metal. "What the scr-"
It dropped onto his troops. He looks and sees Bumblebee running off.
"The Autobots are here!? Impossible! Crush them!"
Bulkhead was freezing parts of the armada with his staff and then Arcee comes in with the Apex armor and Smokescreen with the phase shifter.
"Grimlock!" Optimus ordered. "Clear us a path!"
Grimlock charges straight through the cons and swings the forge around as he does. He clears many of Megatrons forces. He then spots megatron and grins. He charges at him while crushing any con in his way."We'll be taking those Keys megatron!" He said.
Each Autobot managed to steal a key as Megatron was fighting one and one with Grimlock with his dark energon sword.
"You lose megatron!" Grimlock said as he uppercuts Megatron with the Hammer, sending him flying and over a fallen building.
The autobots transformed and drove off, Smokescreen leaving behind a spark extractor as it starts killing the rest of Megatrons army. They made there way to the Omega Lock, seeing a strange contraption within the middle of a barren wasteland. "We've found it."
The keys began glowing and shaking, the contraption lighting up and transforming around them.
"So, how long will the process take?" Asked Grimlock as he stares at the omega lock.
Bulkhead shrugs." I don't know, but we better hurry before megatron gets here."
It was to late because Megaton had arrived. "I suggest you stop what you are doing and hand over those keys."
Everyone points there relics are him"And why would we do that?" Smokescreen scoffed. But then a groundbridge appeared and knockout, Breakdown, and Starscream came through and showed up with the humans.
"Jack, Miko, Raf!" Grimlock glares at Megatron. Of course megatron would do something like this.
"Let them go megatron!" Said Bulkhead as he aims his blasters at Megatron, along with the others.
"Optimus, you risked your life to save our planet- I'm willing to do the same!" Jack shouted, Miko slamming the glass.
"Yeah! Don't let the cons win!"
Optimus wasn't going to let that happen to the humans.He then puts the Star Saber into the ground.
One by one the Autobots surrendered both the keys and the relics.
The children were handed back to them." You guys alright?" Asked Grimlock. He was glad to have them back and safe.
"Grimlock- your planet..." Jack looked up at them.
"We will think of something, Jack." Arcee reassured him, Miko punching the glass.
"You'll pay for this!" She threatened the cons who began inserting the keys, activating the lock which began to revive parts of the planet.
"You have what you want Megatron, let me bring the humans back to earth." Optimus implored but the mech chuckled.
"I wouldn't suggest it. I don't plan on just recyberforming Cybertron... open the space bridge to earth!"
A space bridge opened up, the Omega Lock blasting through it.
"He's not just recyberforming Cybertron, he's Gonna Cyberform earth!" Said Bulkhead.
"What? But wouldn't that kill the humans? We can't let that happen!"Grimlock said. He might not be the brightest, but he does get a few good ideas once in awhile.He tried to think of something to stop this, but only one thing came to mind and it involves what he does best and it might ruin there hopes of ever bringing back there home.
Optimus took a look at Grimlock and gave a nod of approval.
"Go haywire, Grim." Arcee was prepared for chaos to unravel.
Grimlock nods." Keep the kids safe." He then closes his eyes before opening them and the charges over to the forge and grabs it. He then brings it up and brings it down onto the omega lock...destroying it. He then hits both Starscream and Knockout with it, sending them flying to the side.
"You... YOU FOOL! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" Megatron cried out in anger. "Your home... you'd sacrifice the whole future of Cybertron for these humans!?"
"I did this to protect my new family and I will continue to protect them." He said as he was about to hit megatron with the forge, but is then shot in the side. He drops the hammer and holds his side. Who could have done that. He turns and sees a purple cybertronian tank with a huge canon. It then transforms and it's someone familiar to the Cons. The figure had one red eye...it was the decepticon scientist shockwave. After he transformed, three unique Insecticons arrived next to him.
"Hardshell, sharpshot, kickback.Bring me the dinobot while dealing with the Autobots. I must speak with Lord megatron." Said Shockwave as he starts walking over to megatron.
"This will be fun,fun, fun!" Said Kickback as he starts jumping around.
"They better put up a good fight!" Said Hardshell.
"Shut and attack already!" Said Sharpshot as he sends a blast of electricity at Grimlock.
Grimlock barely dodged it.
A groundbridge then opens near the others. Most of the Autobots go through it.
"GRIMLOCK!" Arcee cried out. She tries to go to him but is stopped.
Bulkhead took her through the groundbridge as the three insecticons grabbed into the Dinobot, pulling his limbs into various directions.
"Ru-AHHH!!" Grimlock yells in pain as his arm and leg is ripped off by Hardshell, kickback, and Sharpshot. He is then electrocuted by sharkshot who laughs at Grimlocks pain.
"I love it when they scream!"
"He's weak!" Said Hardshell who drops the arm.
Kickback grabs the arm and uses it to wave at Grimlock." Your weak weak weak grimlock." He then laughs.
"Enough Insecticons. Go and bring the other test subjects here. They soon will have there new leader." Ordered Shockwave.
The bugs reluctantly leave to go and get the other test subjects there master wanted.
"Shockwave... what is the purpose of you keeping the Dinobot?" Megatron questioned, walking up to the cyclops.
"Lord megatron, I plan on turning the specimen into the Ultimate beast. He will hunt and tear the Autobots apart And lead my other test subjects." Shockwave said as he looks at his leader.
"Other test subjects?" Starscream asked Nervously. He is glad shockwave is not asking about why he was left to die.
The Insecticons arrived while pulling along a huge wagon like thing that had five big Stasis pods on it." Your test subjects Shockwave, oh and your pet will be here soon." Said Sharpshot.
Each one had a bot in it. One of the bots was a femme that looked very familiar to Grimlock." Slash..." He said before passing out from Energon loss.
Back at base...
Bulkhead gets smacked across the face hard by Arcee." How could you left him behind!!" She said in a very angry tone.
"I didn't want to but we couldn't get to him and he would want you to be safe!"Said Bulkhead. He would never have left Grim behind, but he had no choice.
Bee walks over and puts a hand on her shoulder. He beeps and whirls a bit, telling her that Grimlock is still alive. Megatron wouldn't kill him yet.
"What else has happened?" Asked Ratchet who is saddened like the rest of the others that Grimlock has been captured.
"Grimlock destroyed the Omega lock in order to save earth." Said Optimus.
"What?! Optimus...We needed that." Said Ratchet as he sighs, but then a alarm goes off.
"You weren't there, Ratchet . And it's not your place to second guess a battlefield decision." Smokescreen said as he looks at ratchet.
"It most certainly is! There had to be another way!" Ratchet protested now mad.
"It wasn't that simple, Ratchet." Jack said.
"Megatron was using the Omega Lock to attack the Earth." Raf added.
"Grimlock saved our planet." Miko followed as she glares at the doc.
"What about our planet!? All of our struggles and energon spilled, countless sacrifices for nothing!?" Ratchet shouted fueled with rage.
Later...
Once Ratchets computers got the alarm, all hell broke lose...
First, Megatrons new base appears in jasper navada because he knows the location, then Wheeljack gets captured right after he arrived, then Optimus has all the Autobots be scattered with the spacebrridge, he stays behind to make sure the others aren't followed and the base ends up blowing up.
At Shockwaves new Lab...
Shockwave had his test subjects put into special containment areas. For the femme, she was placed in a large room with a collar on her. The slightly taller one was put up near the ceiling and it was spinning him. Two were put in the same room, and then final one was put in a some force field of some kind.
Shockwave walks into his newest Test subjects room and stares at what he has already started to do to him. Grimlocks body was being replaced, made to be bigger and much stronger. His looked different and his colors were different as well. There was a groaning sound that came from grimlock, he was conscious the whole time. He looks at Shockwave." Kill...you..."
Shockwave simple stares at him as he readies his equipment to perform some more tests and surgery. The trio bugs walk in." I want to watch!" Said Sharpshot with a grin.
"Very well, but do not touch anything." Said Shockwave as he begins to perform painful surgery to make Grimlock the ultimate killing machine.
Grimlock screams could be heard throughout the lab and the building. This was was only the beginning of Grimlocks pain and suffering...
