It was a normal day at the base. Ratchet was at the monitors checking the Decepticon activity. Arcee, Bumblebee, Bulkhead, Smokecreen and Wheeljack were with the kids watching them play video games or talking to June. Ultra Magnus was in his room and thanks to Primus, he didn't entrust anyone with anything. Optimus was probably in the same situation as Magnus, resting in his room.

Ratchet continued to check as he was left with a look of surprise to the point of incomprehension. Arcee noticed the look and walked over to him. She put her hand on his shoulder and he looked at her.

"What's going on Ratchet?" She asked and he only showed her the monitors. She looked at it and didn't understand, it was kind of impossible. "That's impossible," Arcee said and when they heard a unique baritone voice they turned to the owner.

"What is impossible?" Optimus asked as he saw the medic and his TIC standing by the monitors with a surprised look.

"The Iacon Relic Beacon has appeared," Ratchet replied and Arcee looked at Optimus with the same look she gave Ratchet a moment ago.

"Well that doesn't make sense" Arcee said and they both looked at her "Optimus, you've deciphered all of Iacon's coordinates on Omega One" she added and Optimus had to admit that I was right, but they still had to go check it out.

"Arcee is right that I have decoded all of Iacon's coordinates, but since another relic has appeared we need to go check it out as it could be a weapon of mass destruction and in the hands of the Decepticons humanity would be in danger again. " Optimus said not even having to tell Arcee to go after the other Autobots as Mike's feet were heard quickly sprinting towards the others.

In a few minutes all the Autobots and even Magnus in his usual mood were ready to leave. Ratchet activated the underground bridge and Optimus turned on him.

"Ratchet, you're coming with us, we might need tech help with this relic as well" Optimus said and Ratchet wanted to protest and say he'd be useless there but Optimus was right and so he transformed. Everyone was except for Optimus, who turned to Raf before leaving.

"Understood, underground bridge operator," Raf said and Optimus nodded as he transformed and all the Autobots took off.

The Autobots came out of the underground bridge and the first to draw their weapons was the stealth team. Then the others followed, except for Ratchet who only had blades and no blaster. They marched as a group for a few minutes when Optimus split them up.

"Stealth team you go left, Marauders go right and me and Ratchet go straight if you run into anything contact the others" Optimus gave the order and they all split up.

Wrecker team

Magnus led Bulkhead and Wheeljack forward. Magnus was already glad that he didn't have fights with Wheeljack and that they finally reconciled. They continued for a few more minutes when they heard a noise coming from behind them.

All three of them hid behind the bushes, but immediately came out when they saw Smokecreen running towards them at high speed.

Ultra Magnus stood up and Smokescreen didn't have time to slow down and collided with him. Ultra Magnus groaned a little in pain when the young moss rammed into him and began to regret that he got in his way.

"Kid what's up running through the woods so fast?" Wheeljack asked with a laugh as he saw his commander on the ground.

"We ran into the Decepticons and Arcee is there alone, she gave us cover fire for me and Bee to go after you since the Decepticons had a jammer" Smokecreen said quickly.

When the other mosses heard it, they immediately ran and Smokescreen just ran after them with a scream.

Optimus and Ratchet

Calmly but still cautiously marching forward, Optimus and Ratchet also had no luck, just as Optimus was about to contact Stealth and the Wrecker team, quick but still heavy human footsteps could be heard.

Optimus readied his weapon as did Ratchet as they saw a flash of black and yellow. Optimus retracted his weapon as did Ratchet. Optimus went to ask when someone knocked him off his feet. Well, guess who didn't notice the tall red and blue frame of the Autobot leader as he ran.

Optimus and Bumblebee ended up on the ground. Bumblebee quickly recovered and gave Optimus a helping hand.

"Bumblebee, now a question. Why did you run here? And where is Smokecreen and Arcee?" Ratchet asked and Optimus also looked at Bumblebee quizzically.

"That's exactly why I ran. We ran into a bunch of Decepticons, there were a lot of them and we couldn't contact you and Arcee didn't know how to call for backup so she gave us cover fire and me and Smokecreen ran after you" said Bumblebee and without Optimus replied and Ratchet ran ahead and Bumblebee followed without another word.

Stealth team

Arcee was leading her team and Smokescreen kept saying something about wanting to go with the Wreckers. Arcee had given up on the young mech a long time ago, she knew she couldn't convince him that Stealth was as interesting as Wrecker. They continued walking when Arcee heard the noise of mining and motioned for Bumblebee and Smokescreen to stop as well.

She slowly approached the hill and peeked out. There were many Vehicons and all Decepticon officers. Knockout, Starscream, Shockwave, Soundwave and the Decepticon Lord Megatron himself.

Someone hummed behind her and she looked to see Smokescreen stepping on a branch. She rolled her eyes and heard someone approaching them.

"Arcee Optimus we need backup we found the Decepticons" she contacted but only static came through. Arcee cursed softly as she looked at the vehicles speeding forward.

"There are three of us, we can attack them," Smokescreen suggested, but Arcee nodded.

"That's not a good idea, there are three of us without backup" she looked once more from cover as she decided "you two go, Smokescreen go get the Marauders and Bumblebee go get Optimus and Ratchet, I'll give you cover fire for now" she said and left turn around as Bumblebee grabbed her arm.

"You can't be here alone," he said looking at her. Arcee sighed.

"Bee, I'll be fine, now go and don't look back until you have backup," Arcee said, "that's an order!" she finished as she leaned out of cover and started firing. Both Bumblebee and Smokescreen took off running.

Arcee kept an eye on everyone. She would shoot at vehicles that were advancing towards her and they would fall to the ground dead or just stunned. Arcee went to check on the Decepticon officers when she noticed the absence of a silent mech. She looked around as she charged her blaster and then heard a rustle behind her.

Arcee turned and managed to jump away from him or he would have caught her in his tentacles. Well, that was probably Soundwave's plan as she bounced away from him but ended up in an empty spot where she was unprotected. More vehicles began advancing towards Arcee and she began to kill them with her blades as one knocked her off her feet.

Arcee went to stand up as the vehicles grabbed her by both arms and pulled her towards their leader. They lowered Arcee to her knees and charged her head with blasters.

"Say femme, what are you doing here alone?" Megatron asked looking at her. She refused to say anything.

"Didn't you hear Lord Megatron ask something!" Starscream shouted as he stood by his master's side, but one look from Megatron and Starscream fell silent again.

"And what is your Lord Megatron doing here?" She mockingly asked Megatron's name. Arcee moved forward and Megatron understood that she wanted to tell him something and moved closer. "Let me go and maybe I'll tell you what I'm doing here or I'll try to kill you" Arcee whispered and grinned as Megatron's head moved away.

Megatron put his hand up in the air and wanted to punch Arcee for her insolence towards him. But that didn't work for him when someone fired a shot in front of Arcee and when he looked at the hill Arcee had jumped from before, all the Autobots were standing there.

Arcee saw her chance as everyone's attention turned to the other Autobots, so she destroyed the vehicles behind her. Megatron saw her and wanted to grab her but she was quick and ran away from him and he almost had her as he quickly pulled his hand away to cover himself from a blow from none other than Optimus Prime.

Everyone was fighting someone. Optimus took on Megatron. Arcee fought Starscream and tried to hurt him as much as possible, still not forgiving him for killing Cliffjumper. Smokecreen took Knockout in charge and made fun of him and taunted him. Wheeljack took care of the always silent Soundwave and they looked more like they were dancing. Ultra Magnus fought Shockwave and they also teased each other.

Bulkhead and Ratchet took care of the other vehicles not destroyed by Arcee and Bumblebee slowly crept up to the relic. He was already with her, but she didn't look like a cybertronian. And when he touched her, he was blinded by a strong white light. He thought that only his, but the opposite was true. Every robot in the vicinity was also blinded by a strong white light and passed out.

And all that was left of the Autobots and Decepticons were humans. All men and one woman.