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Plot – With Sally captured, Kicker goes after Ga'Mede all by himself until Magnus shows up. Later on, Ga'Mede tries to fight off a mind-controlling device that was placed inside his head when Galvatron had struck a deal with Magnificus, a long while back. Then, Rad makes a full recovery and Alexis feels overjoyed. Later on, Galvatron and Cryotek have a brought out a new player on the battlefield.

Chapter 16: An Act of Betrayal

Ga'Mede grinned with pleasure by glaring back at Sally from inside the plastic inner dome with pure delight in his eyes. "So…you must be Kicker's sister, Sally. How amusing. I've never seen such a cute girl like you."

All that Sally could do was look away and not stare at him. As she sank to her knees and wrapped her arms around them, she began to cry softly from his annoying insults.

He became very infuriated of hearing her whimper. Then, he punches the dome so hard, it shook a little and nearly caused Sally to stumble. "Do me a favor and stop being such a jerk! That's what makes you and your so-called friends weak!"

"Hey, what's with the commotion?"

When Sally looked up, her fear was worsening upon seeing T-Ai standing right next to Ga'Mede.

"I've managed to capture our latest victim: Kicker's sister, Sally. I mean, look at her. She's more pathetic than that bumbling brother of hers."

"Is that so?" she said raising her eyebrow.

"Apparently, yes. I haven't had the chance of defeating him, since he keeps getting the go-ahead run. Nonetheless, he's still a menace to me, just like that young girl." He points out his finger at Sally sealed inside and feeling left out.

She shrugged her shoulders. "I can't see anything wrong with that."

"Maybe. But judging the way that she is, she reminds me of someone I once knew."

"Oh? Like who?"

"I'd say, she's a lot like…my mother."

T-Ai couldn't believe that he would compare his victim with one of his family members from the Planet Xeptos. "That's ridiculous! There's no way that she can bare a resemblance to her!"

"You don't get it, do you? Right after I've taken her into custody, I had a small discussion with Galvatron and Cryotek" he mentioned to her.

"About what? Magnificus?" she asks, while making a slight guess.

"No, it's about me handling this young peasant on my own."

(Begin Flashback)

Ga'Mede: "So, as you two can plainly understand, please allow me to put the hurt on her, myself."

Cryotek: "And how long, will inflict some damage to her?"

Ga'Mede: "As long as I can remember."

Galvatron: "Good. Be that as it may. You're dismissed…for now."

(End Flashback)

"If you gave them your word, how come you're not giving her some Neo-Dark Energon?" says T-Ai.

As he stares at Sally inside the capsule dome and sitting down quietly, he clenches his fist slowly and turned his head away. "I…I don't know. Seriously, I just don't know."

When Sally lifts her head up, she sees that Ga'Mede is in deep thought. She was unsure of how he's feeling right now, since he was gazing at her complexion. "Huh? What's up with him? First he was being cruel and then, he gets all stressed out? I wonder why?"

As she tries to figure out Ga'Mede's unusual problem, back at the Autobot base, Kicker kept on pacing back and forth at the Main Computer System.

"What am I going to do? I can't just stand by and let my sister get infected with Neo-Dark Energon by that freak Ga'Mede."

"We're uncertain, if he's doing it or not" Koji implied.

"Koji, are you sure that you're still okay after what happened to T-Ai?" Alexis told him.

"To be honest, I am. Even though that I'm still feeling very uneasy with her being controlled like Ga'Mede, I'm not giving up without a fight."

"You almost act like me, but only…" Just as Kicker was about to conclude his sentence, he was interrupted by his father, Dr. Jones.

"Everyone! Rad is finally starting to wake up!"

"Is he really? Well, let's find out."

Immediately inside the medical room, Koji, Kicker, Dr. Jones and Alexis are now waiting to see if Rad has truly awoken. They weren't the only ones attending as they're being joined by Carlos, Billy, Fred, Karl and Jenny.

They all wait in silence and as Alexis stares at him in bed, a tiny sparkle was shown in her blue eyes and some small tears were formed. Her face was filled with grief and shame after remembering the incident of Rad saving her life.

"Please, Rad. Don't die on me." She cries softly upon seeing him like this and wasn't aware that her tears had fell onto Rad's hand.

By feeling the moisture of the tears from his hand that Alexis has made, Rad begins moving his fingers and later murmur. As everybody huddled in, Rad slowly opened his eyes. His vision was blurry at first until he shuts his eyes again and reopened them. When he looks up with a clear view, he could see that Alexis was glancing at him.

"R-Rad?"

"H-Hey, Alexis" he said with a small smile.

When she feels that her heart had melted and her eyes shining with greatness, she leaned forward and hugged him. "Rad! You're alright!"

Everyone became very relieved that Rad had finally woke up, since he was out of action for quite awhile.

As Rad feels her warmth, he responds to her and everybody. "Thanks. I'm just glad that you're all here. So, did anything else happen when I was away?"

Alexis releases the hug from him and clarified. "Only one, Rad. Sally's been…abducted by Ga'Mede."

His eyes flashed with surprise, when he heard the news about Kicker's sister. "She's been what?"

"While you were stuck here, Ga'Mede told us that he's holding her hostage. But, that's not all. T-Ai is under Galvatron's control ever since she risked herself to save Koji and got infected with Neo-Dark Energon" Kicker explained.

"And then, during my recent outing with Koji, she physically attacked him" added Alexis.

Rad's eyes grew very sternly, when she mentioned about her recent time with Koji. "Hold on. Why would you ask Koji out? Was it because of Ga'Mede or something else?"

She continued. "It wasn't Ga'Mede that caused me to feel upset, it was my own misdoing. When I traced back about the times we've had during the Mini-Cons, the Energon wars against Unicron and the black hole, I hadn't realized that you were someone of whom I can stay close with. Almost as if you were Starscream."

He became very astonished of her comparing himself to a deceased Decepticon. "A-Alexis…"

As Carlos watched the two of them chat, he made a suggestion. "Hey, Dr. Jones. I think that we should leave them alone, since they haven't talk to each other for who knows how long."

"Yes, I agree." By exiting the door, he motions to everyone to follow him so that Rad and Alexis won't be bothered by anyone.

When they all left the room, only Rad and Alexis remained.

After a moment of silence, they stared into each other's eyes and started to discuss about the recent changes between them.

"Alexis, I know that we haven't talked much lately since the Energon wars and the black hole while you were working as a government operative but, what prompt you to be here?"

She explained. "I…I felt really scared, when I was on off-duty at work. I came home and every time I gaze at the sky at night, I thought about some of the people that I've made friends with. Like Sally, Kicker, his parents, Misha, Carlos and even yourself." Later, her expression had become shallow and continued on. "T-Than, I had a nightmare. I was all alone and everything was pitch black until I saw someone or something in the distance. When I came in more closely, that figure was none other than Starscream. But when I got there, he disappeared and I was left all by myself again. That is, until I saw you. You were standing there with your back turned and not even looking at me in the eye. I tried calling your name but, you didn't hear me and you walked away from me. As if that wasn't enough for me, I heard not only the sound of a gunshot but also your painful scream. The moment I saw you lying dead and unresponsive, I was filled with pain, sorrow and above all…loneliness. My hands were covered with your blood, when I looked over at your wound and I was…in total despair. I've been having it for awhile, before this whole Dark Energon scheme." After she wiped the tears from her eyes, she had something to say to him. "But please, Rad…" She later clasped his hands with hers. "Don't leave me."

By understanding her side of the story about her worriness and reading her expression, he replied. "I won't, Alexis. Rain or shine, I won't lose you." As he pulls her in closer, his lips came into contact with hers.

She didn't anticipate it and moaned upon feeling his tongue exploring her mouth.

During their quiet time, everybody were observing this from the outside window. Most of them were pretty surprised of this outcome, when they overheard it through the intercom.

"Let me get this straight, Dad. Alexis was very worried about Rad before and after the Energon wars against Unicron, along with the black hole incident?" Kicker asked his father.

"In a matter of speaking, she is. Remember when Rad had a dream and met Starscream? Hers was quite similar, but much worse. It's no surprise that she actually cared about him all along."

Kicker was taken aback by surprise, regarding a Decepticon that Alexis once respected. "But, why would she be friends with Starscream? He was a Decepticon! Not like from what happened to Scorponok."

Dr. Jones countered. "Well, right now, we need to re-focus on the mission."

"But, what about Rad and Alexis?" Koji wondered.

"They'll be fine. We just need to find my sister and beat the living daylights out of Ga'Mede" replied Kicker.

"And, if not, then what?" says Carlos.

Kicker sighed. "I don't want to be the first or last person to find out."

Elsewhere in the Decepticon base, Ga'Mede has thought long and hard about what to do with his captor, Sally.

T-Ai briefly asks him, while she taps her foot. "Have you made up your mind yet or what?"

"Bite your tongue!" He first peered his attention to Sally, before turning back to T-Ai with an answer. "It's been difficult and I've come to the conclusion that…"

Just as he was about to reveal it, he was interrupted by an alarming transmission coming from the viewing screen. As Ga'Mede turns it on, it shows Galvatron and Cryotek on the picture.

"What's with the holdup? Either you infect that human girl with Neo-Dark Energon or we'll do it ourselves!"

"And, we mean it, personally!"

Ga'Mede scratches his head and tries to reply but only came up short. "Yeah, well, I…Aw, man!"

"That's all you can think of? Don't tell us that you actually care about that miserable human!"

Cryotek motions to T-Ai, regarding his impatience. "Young lady, he hasn't made his decision, did he?"

"If you meant like sparing her life for his own procedure, than no."

Both leaders have soon discovered that like Magnificus, he too may have been double-crossed.

"You mean…that you've been playing with us?"

"No, that's not what I meant. What I mean, is…"

"Better increase the mind control chip, while you're at it" whispered Cryotek to Galvatron.

With a simple nod, he winds up the device forward and a purple blinking light was flashing on the center.

In a matter of seconds, Ga'Mede's eyes were widened with shock and as he feels the amount of Neo-Dark Energon purging into his mind, he screams in sheer pain and torture.

Sally watches helplessly of seeing Ga'Mede getting his mind warped into a different but yet, higher level. At a moment's notice, she sees that he's stopped screaming and fell to his knees while he whimpers. Just when she thought it was done, the worst has now come. She hears a small but sickening laugh coming from beneath his tone of voice.

He gets up on his own and opened his dark purple eyes, while showing a very cold look on his face and the Decepticon insignia reappearing on his forehead. It glowed with a brighter light then before. "I'm at your service, Galvatron. What are your orders?"

"We've detected the human Kicker, just hours ago. The fool is trying to get his sister back. But, this gets better. He doesn't have any Autobots with him. Once we show up, we'll walk all over him and then, we shall do the same to the Autobots."

Sally became very frightened of learning about their next scheme on the Autobots and her brother. She trembled and started chattering her teeth until Ga'Mede notices her look of fear.

"Worry all you want, it won't do you any good. Just have yourself a little snooze and we'll gladly add you to our lineup." He presses one of the buttons on the Main Control Desk and some steam was coming inside the dome from above Sally's head.

As she looked up and smelt its air, it made her cough. The effect from the steam was causing her to lose consciousness and while she continued coughing, her eyes were starting to close and later, she was out like a light.

Galvatron and Cryotek were both pleased that he was smart enough to put Sally out of commission.

"Nice work, Ga'Mede. Disposing the human with some sleeping glass was very admirable."

"Indeed. Now, let's hunt down that human."

"Yes, sir."

Meanwhile, outside of the Autobot base and already onto the city streets, Kicker goes off to pursue the enemy by himself and hopefully bring his sister back safely. As he moved forward, he gets an incoming message from his communication watch.

"What is it?"

"Kicker! What do you think you're doing?"

He recognized that strong voice from somewhere and it was his father, Dr. Jones. "I'm going to find Sally on my own and you can't stop me!"

"We already did. Optimus has dispatched his brother, Ultra Magnus to keep his optic sensors on you. Based on his decision and…hers as well" says Dr. Jones.

He shouts back. "Let me guess. It was by Alexis, right?"

"Wrong, Kicker. It was Misha" answered Optimus.

His jaw dropped in awestruck upon hearing that his best friend has made an agreement with his father regarding his well-being. "H-How…How come?"

His father exclaimed. "She's constantly worried about you. Don't you get it, son? You're the only one left for her. If you're gone one day, her fear of loneliness will haunt her forever. Now, do you get the picture?"

With a deep sigh, he calmly responds. "Yeah, I get the picture alright. I'm just still unsure, if I'm able enough to set things straight between myself and Misha. The problem is, I get easily distracted. But, I don't why."

"That's because you're such a wreck-less idiot!" says a new voice.

As he turns around, he sees not only Ga'Mede and T-Ai but also Galvatron and Cryotek.

Without any backup, Kicker is outnumbered. "Aw, crap! Energon Sabre!" He draws out his weapon and grasps it with two hands. "Okay, you creeps! Where's Sally?"

"Are you really that impatient? Here she is." Galvatron holds the captive Sally in his immense hand and shows it to him.

"Kicker!" she cried, while yelling out to her brother.

"Sally! You're not infected!"

"She soon will be, if you can beat our minions. If you refuse, however…" Cryotek than holds a piece of Neo-Dark Energon next to Sally and it made her very scared. "Once we infect her, our forces will be twice as powerful as before."

"I'm warning you, let her go or else!"

"Or else you'll what? Pulverize us? We'd like to see you try it!" scolded Galvatron by playing a game of double-dare on Kicker.

"I'll take my chances. Kicker, Transform!" He right away suits up into his crimson red outfit with bright yellow pads and his hair glowing gold, while his eyes were light blue. He picks up his Energon Sabre, turning it from yellow and blue into pure red and later uses one of his newest techniques on Galvatron. "Eat this! Energon Tempest Slash!" With his pure strength, he fires the red boomerang-like projectile right onto Galvatron's chest. By quickly taking a couple of deep breaths, he informs him. "How's that?" But when the dust was cleared out, he gasped in shock and witnessed the sudden outcome of his attack: It didn't leave any damage. "Wh-What? There's not a scratch on him!"

"Good try. But, that's not enough to satisfy me and Cryotek! Time to suffer!"

In an instant, both of them fired their attacks right onto Kicker. Just when it seemed that they've already taken him down, he gets whisked away from someone before they've left the ground with nothing but a huge pothole.

"Where did he go?" Galvatron asked.

"Over here, you scumbags!"

As they overhear that voice and whirled the other way, they became awfully surprised to see not only Kicker, but also the individual that saved him from their assault.

"Ultra Magnus!"

"Damn you!"

Kicker turned to him and replied. "Hey, thanks a lot. They've almost made mince-meat out of me. Now, all I have to do is get Sally back."

"You don't have to, kid. She's safe with us."

Before he could even react, she reappears from his legs and was free from Galvatron's grasp.

"Sally, you're alright!" he cried.

"What? But, how?" yelled Galvatron.

Magnus informs them. "While you two jerks fired his attack on him, I came in and grabbed her from you."

"You see? Not a single Neo-Dark Energon is on me, Kicker. But let's face it, you're still such a pain!" she said.

Magnus disrupted them. "Listen, you two can bicker at each other's faces later. We've got some garbage to clean up."

"Humph! That was quite smart of you. But let's find out, if you have what it takes to feel our combined wrath!" Cryotek told him.

Kicker tries to warn him by reconciling Cryotek's offer. "Don't do it, Magnus! It's too dangerous! You can't face them both!"

"I'm well aware of that. It's not like they're playing mind games on me. It's just that I don't understand of what they're really up to with Neo-Dark Energon."

"In what way?" he asked.

"Whatever it may be, it won't be pretty."

Back at the Autobot base, Optimus and his crew have overviewed the speculation.

"Something's completely off here."

"With what, Optimus?" thought Rodimus.

"With how much recruits Galvatron and Cryotek have in their corner. It's only them, Ga'Mede and T-Ai. Somehow, there's bound to be an ambush."

When Rodimus peered closer at the viewing screen where the Decepticon leaders are, he also noticed the situation. "You may be onto something, Optimus. We might as well mountain our reinforcements and head there as soon as possible. Accordingly, let's head over to the other side."

"Agreed. I'll bring the Autobot Brothers, Team Bullet Train, SnowCat and Demolisher with me."

"Good. I'll take Daytonus, Nightcruz, Hauler and Skid-Z. Now, let's…"

Just as Optimus, Rodimus and their squadrons were about to depart, Rad interjected them.

"Wait! If you're going, than so am I." Then, he felt Alexis clutching his arm.

"No, you can't! You're not healed, yet!"

After staring at her eyes that was filled with shame, he pulled his arm away from her and responded. "I'm sorry, Alexis. It's a risk that I must take."

"I'm with Rad also. Count me in."

As Alexis hears and sees Koji, her level of worriness was starting to ascend. "Oh, no. Not you too. What has come over with you, guys?" Her eyes were now filled with tears of pain. "Can't you see that you're putting your lives at stake one too many times? I mean, it's not worth it!"

By glancing at her miserable expression, Rad walked up to her and made a statement. "There's nothing for you to concern about me or anyone, Alexis. And another thing…" With an unlikely move, he slaps her right across the face. It was so hard, it almost echoed the whole facility.

Everybody was stunned of what Rad did to Alexis. He doesn't want to hear anymore of her complaining in regards to the ongoing battle.

"Shut up and stop acting like such a fool! I mean, seriously! Must you always blab about yourself than me or anyone else for that matter?"

Alexis gasped in bewilderment and stood there in frozen. She could even feel her heart dropped. Almost as if, her world had crashed down on her. When she was about to reply, he placed his hand on her shoulder and continued.

"Now, look. We can discuss about this another time. Right now, me, Koji and the Autobots have a job to do: saving ourselves, Earth, Cybertron and the whole universe." As he was leaving, he plants a kiss on her cheek and joins in with the rest of the fleet, by going through the Space Bridge.

As she feels her cheek, Alexis now knows that he's not just fighting for Earth, Cybertron and universe, but also for herself as well. With a frequent smile on her face, she thought to herself. "I knew, I was wrong."

Back out on the streets, Magnus and Kicker, along with Sally haven't made their move at the Decepticons. They're still trying to figure out, if they've set up a trap on them.

"You may have rescued your puny friend, which was hardly any luck. But mess with us and we'll tear you to pieces!" notified Galvatron.

"Oh, yeah? Why don't you make us?" Magnus mocked at them.

"Magnus, don't!" cried Kicker.

"In that case, we will." With a snap of his fingers, Galvatron called out his henchmen. But nothing happened. There was a cold silence that filled up the streets. Basically, something was wrong with this picture. "What's going on? Where are they?"

"Huh? I don't get it. They should've been here, by now" thought Ga'Mede.

"I know. What's keeping them?" added T-Ai.

Not only were they curious of their late arrival, so were Sally, Kicker and Magnus.

"Is it just me or did they ignore his orders?"

"It's neither. But other than that, was it…"

"Kicker, look!" Magnus points out to where they are. Every Decepticon that were originally about to attack them have been wiped out by two titanic men and their army. He recognized who they are, when they showed themselves. "Well, I'll be damn! It's my brother and Rodimus!"

"What?" shouted Galvatron and Cryotek in unison.

"I don't believe this! Here we are, trying to surprise them and then…" As Ga'Mede was about to explain further details, he gasped to see someone standing beside the Autobots: Magnificus. "You! You backstabbing creep!"

Upon seeing both Optimus and Rodimus along with their new recruit, Galvatron and Cryotek became very frustrated.

"That's does it! We'll destroy you all! Ruination, do it!"

"Yes, sir" says the combined Decepticon behemoth.

"That goes for you too, Bruticus! Rip the flesh off from their circuits!"

In-spite that the Autobots have gotten the number advantage, the Decepticons still wants a piece of the action.

"Looks like they've been saving their best for last. I'm not impressed" Optimus mentioned to Rodimus.

"Neither do I."

"You should be! Attack! Show them no mercy!"

And with that, a huge battle has occurred. Optimus and Magnus combined themselves into Omega Prime and with Rodimus, the Autobot brothers and Team Bullet Train becoming Rail Racer, they're nearly putting up a good fight against Galvatron and Cryotek. As for the others, such as SnowCat, Demolisher, Nightcruz, Daytonus, Hauler and Skid-Z, they're squaring off against Bruticus and Ruination. Whereas Kicker, he was joined by Rad and Koji as they battled Ga'Mede and T-Ai. Even though the Decepticons are getting manhandled by their arch-rivals, the Autobots, they're simply not walking away.

As Galvatron and Cryotek gets blasted by the combined efforts of Omega Prime, Rodimus and Rail Racer and the Autobot brothers, they both made a sinister laugh.

"Hey, what's so funny?"

"Is this another one of your underhanded tricks?"

Galvatron retorted. "Let me and Cryotek put into terms that the whole idea of having your human friend, Kicker and Magnus pitting against us and then, you levelling out our reinforcements were all part of our scheme. But let me jog into your memory bank, Prime. Do you remember the time, when I terminated my Predacons and escaped from the Asteroid Prison Colony?"

"Yes. What exactly are you saying?"

He carried on. "I'm saying is that when I've annihilated both the Build Team and the Spy-Changers during their pursuit on me, I've taken the liberty of infecting them with Dark Energon. A pity that your human friends were not our first test subjects."

Rodimus' jaw dropped in shock, when he heard the unholy truth. "N-No! That can't be true!"

"Come on! He's got to be bluffing. There's just no way that he has backup with him. Right?" said Sideburn to Prowl.

"I don't know about you, but I think you're wrong."

"Eh? Whose side are you on?"

"Yours, okay! So, get a grip!"

Before their tempers were about to flare, X-Brawn intervened. "As much as I hate seeing you two arguing but, look!"

When X-Brawn motions his two Autobot Brothers and everyone else to where he was gazing at, they all stood there in horror as a massive construction transformer walks right next to Ruination and halted. But, there was something anew with this individual. Its optic sensors are no longer dark emerald green and have now become dark purple. Also, its Autobot insignia have been replaced with a Decepticon.

Filled with agony on his robotic face, Omega Prime replied. "This…This can't be happening! Landfill is with the Decepticons!"

"Th-Th-That's Landfill? The Build Team?" says Kicker in shock.

"He sure does. Turns out that his so-called Dark Energon can also manipulate us too" Magnus clarified.

"This is crazy! What else is going to happen?" complained Sally.

"The next course." With a snap of his fingers that made a loud snap, Galvatron revealed his next batch of troops.

The first member came from out of an advertisement banner. The second one appeared from an abandoned garage shop. The third and fourth members unveiled themselves from beneath the bridge. Then finally, the last two members popped out from underneath the surface that Galvatron and Cryotek were standing on. As they all came about and formed together with the Decepticons, Omega Prime gasped in horror.

"N-No! Not the…"

"That's right, Prime. Say hello to my second newest members of the Decepticons: The Spy-Changers. With special thanks to the Dark Energon!"

All of the Autobots, Kicker and his teammates just couldn't believe their eyes. Galvatron has brought out another new set of reinforcements that he has been savouring from the very start, since his escape.

Inside the Autobot base, even Dr. Jones and everybody else couldn't believe it either.

"This is madness. We had no idea that Galvatron had hidden recruits this whole time."

"He's been toying with us. Now, we know the truth relating to his escape" Scavenger confirmed.

"So, what now?" Misha asked Alexis.

"Well, with the numbers stacked against them, it would be impossible to pull off an upset. They have simply no chance of turning the tide."

Misha's heart began to fill up with concern. "Kicker…"

"Aw, man! That's totally unfair!" whined Fred.

"You're telling me" Billy agreed.

Back to where the action is, everything was at a stand-still until Galvatron broke off the silence.

"Are you impressed with what I have in-front of me, Prime? You'll be in for a bigger surprise, when I will unravel my next phase of our plan."

"Such as?"

"Ga'Mede! T-Ai! Get over here!" He commanded to them.

With some assistance from Ruination, they were airlifted from his gigantic hand and were dropped off to confront their leader.

"What are your orders, sir?"

"It better be good."

Cryotek replied. "Patience, you two. Galvatron has managed to save the best for last. Go ahead, partner. Show it to them."

"I shall, indeed. You both served me and Galvatron well, but we no longer have any more use for you. Because, this was bound to happen!"

Kicker became a bit dumbfounded. "Eh? What's he talking about?"

"I don't think that I want to know" answered Koji.

"You should be. Feast your eyes on this." He pulls out of what appears to be a small stasis pod. From the looks of things, it seemed as though, it was Deja vu all over again.

But as he placed it down, it strangely opened and a mysterious person appeared with a light purple cloak. The individual was silent and approached to Ga'Mede and T-Ai.

Not knowing of what this unknown person is capable of doing, Ga'Mede stepped in. "Okay, this is far as you can go."

Its shadowy face smiled as it lifts up its hand and then, medium miniature lasers sprung from its fingertips and restrains him.

"Wh-What is this? Galvatron! Explain yourself!"

He laughed. "Watch and you'll see why."

The dark figure in a light purple cloak starts draining all of the Neo-Dark Energon from the inside and out, while he screams in agony and pain.

"Hey! What are you…" As T-Ai tries to reason, the figure lifts up its other hand and pulls out more lasers as she too is restrained. By trying to get out, she too gets drained and just like Ga'Mede, they're both feeling the pressure from their Neo-Dark Energon depletion.

Koji was going to help her out, but Rad detained him. "T-Ai! No, let me go! She needs our help!"

"Forget it. We don't even know, who that person is."

"Hey, Rad. It looks like we're about to find out" says a shaken Kicker.

After absorbing all of the Neo-Dark Energon from both Ga'Mede and T-Ai, the figure releases its hold on them and they both fainted to the ground while the lasers went back to its owner. Suddenly, its whole body is enshrouded in a black, red and dark purple aura. It was glowing for several minutes until it went away. That's when it unveiled itself right in-front of everyone.

They all stood there frozen in shock. What they see is an exact copy of T-Ai. Except its features were very different. Its clothing material and shoes were dark purple, it had no intercom and the helmet had the Decepticon insignia on it. Then, it opened its dark amber eyes and made a harsh giggle.

"Good afternoon, you all."

"Wh-What in tarnation?" gasped X-Brawn.

"That…looks like T-Ai!" mentioned Sideburn.

"Galvatron! What have you and Cryotek created?" asked Optimus.

With a sickening laugh, Galvatron spoke. "Behold, Prime! Our newest creation that's strong enough to fully enhance the power of Neo-Dark Energon! M-Ai!"

"M…M-Ai?" says Koji with his forehead sweating bullets.

To Be Continued…

End of Chapter 16