In the dark midsts of a civil war ridden Cybertron, Pinpoint runs through an alleyway carrying supplies hidden away in his arms. He runs towards a hidden door and enters it. Mayday is helping a hurt small grey bot rest. "Okay, just relax Bug Bite, we're patching you up.", Mayday says. "Aaagh, oh Primus it hurts." Bug Bite yelps in pain, Mayday responds, "I know, I know! Just hang in there for a few astro-seconds and you'll be good as new." Pinpoint then runs up to Mayday and hands her the Energon healing gel. "About time you showed up Pinpoint." Mayday says, to which Pinpoint replies, "Hey! I was getting chased by those fraggin autotroopers. The Decepticons started a major attack on the city, so the place is swarming with them right now!" Mayday turns to her attention back to Bug Bite and reattaches his arm, and sprays around the incision points, reconnecting his arm. She then reattaches certain points and says, "Okay Bug Bite, do me a favour and try moving your arm around." Bug Bite then proceeds to move his arm around at a natural pace. "Woa...haha! My arm!" he says in excitement, as Mayday smiles back, and lets go of him, letting Bug Bite stand up and wave his arm around. "I can't believe it, it's like it's never left my body!" he says happily, Mayday responds, "Just be careful with that, you don't wanna wind it up to the point where it flies off now." Bug Bite lets his arm rests and responds, "Gehe, yeah. Sorry." Mayday waves her hand, "No need to apologise. Just get home safely and stay undercover. Hopefully we'll all be out of this mess soon." Bug Bite then speaks, "Surely I can pay you, I can give you all of my Shanix?" Mayday shakes her head, "Don't be daft Bug Bite. Just get home." Bug Bite then smiles as he walks back out, "Thank you so much Mayday, you're a hero to all of us." He then runs out of the area. Mayday then sighs as she sits down, and Pinpoint stares at her. "Long astro-day?" He says, to which Mayday groggily looks back up. "More like long astro-everything."

Pinpoint extends his hand out to help Mayday back up to her feet. "You're okay though, yeah?" Pinpoint says to Mayday, she responds, "Yeah I'm okay. I'm just so sick and tired of all this fighting and war and blah-de-blah." Pinpoint nods, "I hear ya. Stealing from those Autobot health supply stations is getting harder and harder. I'm hoping they've not caught onto us yet." Mayday sighs and talks, "I hope so too. It's not fair at all. They're the ones contributing to this destruction. Ya know, 'rise up against the evil Decepticons' and so on, but nothing's been getting better. They're the ones hogging all the medical supplies for themselves. I just keep seeing more and more innocent people getting hurt...and sometimes even worse." Pinpoint nods in agreement, "Anyway, we should probably head back to our quarters before they'll suspect something." Mayday starts to walk to the exit, "Agreed." She says as she walks out the exit, with Pinpoint following her from behind. They continue to walk through the dark alleyways of Cybertron, hearing the haunting sounds of destruction and war far in the background. Mayday then turns a corner to see Bug Bite standing in the open road. Pinpoint points out to him, "Hey, there's Bug Bite. What's he doing over there?" Mayday, confused begins walking up to him. Pinpoint follows closely, looking around. "I don't like the look of this Mayday." he says, and Mayday responds, "Well, maybe Bug Bite's got shell shock. Let's help him home." She then walks up to Bug Bite, who is simply standing there. Mayday then walks up to him, "Hey Bug Bite, you okay? Did you get lost or something?" Bug Bite stays standing there, noticeably trembling. Pinpoint speaks, "We should go now Mayday." Mayday turns around and shushes Pinpoint, before tapping Bug Bite on the shoulder, "Hey, what's wro-" Bug Bite then turns around instantly with a blaster in his hand and aims it at Mayday. Mayday and Pinpoint are standing still in shock. Bug Bite trembling in his hand begins talking, "T-T-T-They o-o-offered me...t-t-too many Shanix credits….i-i-i'm so sorry." Suddenly, autotroopers began to appear from all the alleyways and begin to surround Mayday and Pinpoint. Pinpoint pulls out his dual sub machine laser guns and shouts, "Back off now, or I'll take down every single one of yo-" Suddenly, Pinpoint gets hit with an EMP device which locks his body in place, temporarily paralysing him. Ratchet suddenly appears with Prowl and points at Mayday, "That's her, that's the fraggin thief! Arrest her now!" As Prowl tries to calm him down. "Hey, relax, we got this." Mayday then puts her hands up. "I'm not going down without a fight you hear?!" She says, trying to defend herself from the surrounding forces. Prowl then goes up to her and aims a blaster at her. "Congratulations Mayday, you're a criminal."

TRANSFORMERS RENEGADES

Next Patient Please

Warzone waves to the facility as he converts and flies alongside a long line of M.A.S.K. trucks and armed vehicles, transporting satellite equipment. "Man it sure does feel good to get out of the house!" he says as he follows the trucks, heading down a paved road, away from the spaceport. Two M.A.S.K. agents are standing in the control deck area of the nearly finished Earth Spaceport, an old Autobot outpost being rebuilt into a connecting space bridge hub connecting many points on Earth and Cybertron, and most importantly, becoming a hub for the Renegades and M.A.S.K. forces. Vehicles are driving by, military personnel are all over the place, and construction workers are finishing the last few remaining touches of the Earth Spaceport. One of the agents turns to his comrades and speaks to him, "Hey, Delta?" To which the other agent sighs, "What is it Tango?", the other agent continues, "What do you think about all of this secrecy?" Delta scowls, "I don't get paid to think Tango, and neither do you." Tango continues, "Right right right, yeah yeah." They stand in silence for a few seconds, before Tango starts talking again, "But what do you think about it?" Delta rolls his eyes and simply tuts, "If you must know? I think that it's a god damn miracle how we've managed to keep our giant metal friends out of the public perception for this long." Tango replies, "I know! That's flippin crazy right? Like, holy shit dude. People must be thicker than what I thought." Suddenly, Ratchet and Matt Trakker turn a corner, with Matt speaking directly to them. "That's why we hired you boys, to keep all this under wraps, and if you still want your jobs, I'd suggest you'd keep it that way. Trust me when I'd say you'd rather have one of these lugnuts on your side, rather than chasing after your ass." The agents look up to see a scowling Ratchet with his arms crossed, staring directly into their souls. The agents look back in fear, "R-r-right sir! A-a-ahem...w-we're jus-" Agent Tango speaks before Trakker finished his sentence, "Just heading off to training? Excellent idea, and whilst you're there, maybe spend a few hours packing ammo crates as well." The agents scowl away, looking embarrassed with themselves. Trakker smirks to himself whilst Ratchet simply scoffs and walks over to the War Table. Trakker's taken a notice of this and follows him. "Something on your mind, big guy?" he asks. "Tch. I've got too much on my mind right now Trakker, don't need the opinions of simple-minded humans to taint my thoughts." Ratchet replies rather snarkily. Trakker raises an eyebrow and talks back, "Hey, no need for friendly fire here Ratchet. You letting goons get to your head?" Ratchet laughs and retorts, "Absolutely not. I couldn't care less what some bricks for brains soldiers think." Trakker then responds, "That's a mean way to talk about your teammates." Ratchet looks at Trakker and speaks back, "There your teammates. Not mine, quite frankly I despise working with you humans." Trakker grins and replies, "I thought you liked working with me?" Ratchet then says, "I tolerate working with you." Trakker simply scoffs and waves his hand. Ratchet turns back to his table and begins browsing data files and scrolling through the construction plans for the Earth Spaceport.

Mayday and Sabre are holding a large metallic girder as they are moving it alongside to a larger room. "What do you think this room is gonna be for Mayday?", Sabre asks. Mayday looks around the rooms and speaks, "I'm pretty sure this is the planned virtual reality training room." Sabre's face lights up, "Oh wow! A VR training room? That's gonna be so awesome! Ya know, getting to see what a fighting scenario would be like up close!" Mayday smiles as she helps Sabre move the girder into its correct spot, "It'll certainly be an effective tool to train us a bit more without risk of exposure to the world." Mayday says, before sighing and looking around the room, and putting her hands on her hips. Sabre notices that Mayday is scanning the room and pipes up, "Are you daydreaming Mayday?" Mayday simply laughs and replies, "Haha, no Sabre. I'm just wondering why this room is taking the longest to construct." Sabre's head tilts and he asks, "What do you mean by that?" Mayday answers, "This is the last area that's need to be fully fitted. All the other rooms have gone past the initial building phase and are onto furnishing, but this is still in development for whatever reason." Sabre then goes up to Mayday, "Why don't we ask Ratchet for an update on what's going on?" Mayday's eyes roll, "Yeah, no thanks Sabre." Sabre's expression droops, "Aw, why not?" Mayday responds, "I really don't want to talk to him. Why don't you go ask one of the others to ask for us, or better yet, ask him yourself?" She says before walking away, leaving Sabre behind. "Uh...okay! I'll go take a wonder!" He says before walking around the spaceport. Sabre walks through the crowds of the many people working, as he walks towards Pinpoint, who is helping M.A.S.K. agents weld an important roof piece. Sabre walks up to the working Pinpoint and asks, "Hey Pinpoint!" Pinpoint continues working and responds, "Heya Stripes. Do me a favour and hand me that melter could ya?" Sabre looks at the tool box and hands Pinpoint the component. "Thanks." he replies, before continuing to work. Sabre then talks, "Uh, hey uhm… I don't suppose I could ask you, uhm...why is the VR room taking so long?" Pinpoint shrugs, "I dunno. Why don't you go ask that Matt Trakker guy? He works all these missions he might know. You asked Ratchet?" Sabre shakes his head. "No, I haven't." He looks around before getting closer to Pinpoint, "I don't think Mayday likes Ratchet very much." Pinpoint sighs, "Yeah? Well, she can join the club." Sabre tilts his head, before Pinpoint continues. "Ratchet is one of the reasons why I'm in this shithole to begin with, and he's currently number two on my list of people who I'd be happy to never see again. That asshole Warzone took that crown yesterday after he tried to do this stupid human thing with me called arm-wrestling. Good thing he's out on some transportation mission with M.A.S.K. guys today. Works for me, I don't have to be reminded that he exists. That scrap-head nearly took my arm off! I'm telling you man, that con is gonna kill us one day." Sabre shakes his head, "Never mind about Warzone, I wanna know why you guys don't like Ratchet? He's helped us out on missions!" Pinpoint scoffs and responds, "Yeah, cause all he cares about is the mission. He couldn't give a damn if we all suddenly disappeared one day." Sabre then looks down, upset, and he walks away. Pinpoint turns back and continues working, sighing. Mayday continues to walk through the corridors and nearly walks into Stereo. "Heya Mayday!" Stereo waves to her, Mayday waves back and talks, "Hi there. Where you off to?" Stereo grins and talks, "Okay, get this? Lucina's got this crazy human thing called a projector, right? It supposedly displays images really quickly on a surface to give the illusion of a moving picture!" Mayday nods, "Yes, I believe the humans call it a movie." Stereo gets giddy, "Lucina's got this one about a giant lizard that runs around and destroys a whole city! Doesn't that sound awesome?" Mayday simply sighs and shakes her head, "I think I'm all destruction'd out for one bot Stereo. You go along and have fun though, I'm needed elsewhere." Stereo waves goodbye and skips along.

Warzone continues to follow the trucks through the forests, as the roads then passes through to an open road. The road then leads its way through a deserted rocky landscape and into a small abandoned town. It has a petrol station, a few buildings, and a town hall. It hasn't been used in years. The trucks then begin parking up in the middle of the town as soldiers and technicians begin to disembark and setup equipment. Warzone converts and stands next to a soldier. He turns around to see a truck containing equipment, and Lucina's face pokes outside of the back, and she see Warzone looking at him, she cheekilly smiles and waves. Warzone puts a finger on his mouth, telling Lucina to be quiet. She then hides her head away in the truck, as a solider looks at Warzone. "The hell you doing?" He asks. Warzone turns around and rubs his nose. "What? It's itchy." The solider raises an eyebrow. "I didn't know you could get an itchy nose." Warzone then puts on his tough guys voice, "What, you got a problem with that?" The solider then shakes his head, "Not at all, not at all." Warzone then grins and crosses his arms, observing the operation. He then turns to the solider, "Remind me what you bozos are up to again?" The solider scoffs and talks, "We're setting up an outpost. We're installing satellite technology so we can communicate with the bases and have a better grasp on the area. Especially with those fancy new energon detectors they're installing." Warzone tilts his head, "Energon detectors, huh? Aw come on guys, that's cheating. Part of the fun is the hunt!" He says grinning to himself, as he watches the technicians struggle to put the energon detector up. He sighs and walks over, "Here, lemme help you with that." They let Warzone put the large metal beam upward and standing in the right position. "Alright, hook it up and let's see this metal detector purr." The energon detector is then hooked up to power, and it instantly starting beeping an alert noise. "Woop, looks like it's working really well then, heheh." Warzone says as he backs away from it. The solider from earlier runs up with a worried expression and speaks, "N-n-no! If that's going off then that means there's a Decepticon in the area!" Warzone gives an awkward expression, "Hey uh...this may be odd but uh...I used to be a De-" The solider interrupts him, "This doesn't make sense. You and your other friends have been whitelisted...maybe you bumped it too hard when assembling it Victor!" He says scowling at a scientist. Suddenly an all too familiar aircraft noise is heard in the air, Warzone turns his optics to see an approaching fighter jet, with Decepticon symbols plastered on it. "Shit! Seeker!" He yells as he converts and begins to fire his mini-guns at the incoming seeker. The Decepticon then fires their null-rays at Warzone, and hits him in a very specific spot, crippling his rotors. The seeker cackles as he flies by, as Warzone shouts in agony as he falls to the ground. The solider then runs up to Warzone, "Warzone, you alright? What's your status?!" Warzone grunts and groans as he lays there in his vehicle form. "I feel...I feel...like scrap….gah, I think that seeker hit my transformation cog…" The solider looks into the sky to see the seeker begin to turn. "He's coming in for another round! Defensive positions!" The M.A.S.K. vehicles then begin to aim their guns towards the skies, loaded and ready to fire. Warzone splutters, "Gah...no!...That seeker will mow you guys down...you can't fight him!" The solider worryingly speaks to Warzone, "We don't have a choice! We make our stand now!" Warzone then looks around the transport vehicles and sees a scared Lucina, hiding beside the Energon shield generator. "Lucina! Set up that shield now!" He shouts, and Lucina fearfully gets up and pulls the generator out. The solider looks at him in confusion as the technicians quickly assemble the generator. "What the hell are you doing? Why is there a civillian here?" Warzone scoffs, "Can it meathead, she knows what she is doing, help her out!" Lucina then responds, "Warzone...h-how are we gonna power this thing? We don't have any Energon sources!" Warzone grunts and growls, "Grah...not to worry...you got one right here." The seeker makes his full turn and begins flying back to the outpost. "Shit! He's coming back! What do we do?" The solider says in fear, Warzone struggles and strains as he tries his hardest to convert. "Gah! Mmpf! Primus dammit!" He says as he tries to move all his parts around. The seeker then arms itself with missiles and prepares to fire. Lucina screams and ducks in fear. Suddenly, Warzone screams loudly in agony as he converts into robot mode and smacks the Energon shield generator, at the same moment the missiles leave the seeker. The whole area gets surrounded in a large blue orb, and the missiles explode on impact of the shield.

Mayday walks back to her designated quarters and sits down. She looks around her cold desolate room as she sits down, glad to be left alone with her thoughts. She has a sombre expression, as she is remembering what her days were like before the war. Growing up, she was always disobedient towards her superiors and often got in trouble at academies. She smiles remembering the old times where she passed her trials and got through the final phase, which would let her go on forward to become a fully qualified doctor. Her expression however, turns sad and angry, as she then remembers how the archives all closed and how quickly Cybertron turned sour as the Decepticons rose up. She saw how horrible the world had turned, the Decepticons spread their propaganda across the world, talking about how they were fighting for a revolution of peace, but Mayday was smart enough to know their reign was ultimately for vengeful tyranny. She wanted to help so badly, she temporary joined the Autobot cause to become a nurse and help out soldiers in the field, but her eyes were too focused on helping the innocent Cybertronian civilians caught in the cross-fire. Supplies were very low and high in demand, so much so that the Autobot cause, in greediness, kept all the quickly draining medical supplies. Mayday was horrified at how this supposed rebellion were rationing medical supplies to their own troops, instead of helping those who rightfully needed it. She continues to have her memories come flooding back, of all the people she saw being hurt, crying out in pain, and the main auto-troopers pointing at her in anger and shouting at her. The memory of Ratchet pointing, and getting the auto-troopers to arrest her, sticks out like a sore thumb. She then opens up her eyes and slams her hand into the wall in anger. She is trying to keep herself calm, but simply tries to ignore the bad memories, as the emotions begin to overwhelm her.

Warzone sits beside the energon generator shield, as the M.A.S.K. agents regroup and try to assemble a plan and establish contact with the ariel dish they've transported to the outpost, Lucina paces around, trying to help out the technicians wherever she can. She then turns to Warzone and she gets very upset, "I-I-I-I'm so sorry Warzone...I-I didn't mean to…" Warzone simply smiles, "Hey kid. Don't worry about it. It's not that bad, heheh. You go be useful and help out around here." She wipes away her tears and heads off to help the technicians. Warzone then sees the seeker, who now in robot mode, is hovering nearby the front of the outpost. Warzone simply smiles meekly and shouts at him, "You want an autograph or something?" The seeker snarls and speaks back, "I know who you are, traitor." Warzone simply leans back against the large brick wall, "Hah, good to know that my reputation keeps you lot up at night." The seeker shouts back, "You are nothing of notewrothy to us at all, traitor! You are merely an obstacle in my way, and you are only delaying the inevitable." Warzone simply laughs and retorts, "From me smashing your head in, of course?" The seeker simply snarls. Warzone then talks, "And just who's head would I be smashing in?" The seeker talks, "I am Nacelle. I'm here for the stash of Zel Quartz beneth you, and I have all day." Warzone grunts as he holds his chest in pain. Nacelle grins, "You won't last forever in there Autobot. I'd say you've only got about a fourth of a cycle left before your spark gives out. Such a shame all that energy beneth you is incompatible with Cybertronians. Tell me, traitor. Are you gonna die with some dignity, or will you spend your last moments alive as a battery for these pathetic humans?" Warzone growls in anger. "The only one here that's pathetic is you. You're all out here by your lonesome, at least I have back-up." Nacelle grins, "Oh, I'm counting on it. Getting a sweet Autobot multi-kill would be excellent." Warzone simply grits his teeth at Nacelle. "Maybe I'll bring the head of your friends to you, just to see that last remaining feeling of hope on your face wash away." Nacelle says to him, Warzone snaps back, "You can try it glitch-head, you'll be sorry." Nacelle simply cackles, "I'll be watching! Just you wait until I get back. I'm going to crush all of those dirty humans underneath me. Oh, how I can't wait, because unlike you, I have all day!", as he converts and flies away to scan the area for other Autobots. Warzone simply sighs and looks around to see the humans looking at him. "I'm not...letting those damn Decepticons get ahold of these minerals. We could use this Zel Quartz to power the Spaceport...better us then them. We make a stand now and protect it!" Warzone speaks, to which the solider replies, "You're gonna kill yourself!" Warzone then looks to the technicians. "Finish your satellite, and get Lucina to contact HQ. We don't have much time."

Mayday opens her eyes in shock, to hear over the intercom, "Could the Cybertronian unit, 'Mayday' please assemble to the main control deck." She shrugs off her memories and begins walking to the deck. Mayday walks around the corner and arrives at the control deck room, to where Sabre is standing there talking with Stereo, Ratchet and Trakker. Mayday sighs to herself before walking up to them, and getting closer she can hear them all arguing. "Absolutely not! I am not allowing you to take her out on a mission, I forbid it!" Ratchet is heard shouting. "I don't have time to argue Ratchet, we are in need of a Cybertronian medic right now!" Trakker yells, Stereo shouts too, "Guys, have you seen Lucina at all? I can't find her!" Mayday then pipes in, "What's going on here? Is somebody hurt?" Ratchet then stands in front of her, "Nothing that concerns you thief, go back to your quarters." Mayday scoffs and chats back, "I walked all the way here, I'm hearing what's going on." She walks past Ratchet and scowls at him, she then kneels and speaks to Trakker. "What's going on chief?" she asks him. "Warzone and a M.A.S.K. unit are in trouble. He helped us to transport essential satellite equipment to a small abandoned town south of here, to help create an outpost, but when they got there, they got attacked by a seeker." Trakker says. "Another fraggin seeker. Of course." Stereo butts in. "Is Warzone okay?" Mayday asks, to which Trakker sighs and replies, "I'm not going to sugar coat it. If we don't get a Cybertronian medic down there as soon as possible, Warzone and my entire task unit, isn't going to make it." Ratchet simply scoffs and waves his arm, "Can't they simply load his body onto one of those big trucks and drive him back?" Trakker snaps back at Ratchet, "Even if they could, not only would that put my men at risk of being shot at by that seeker, that outpost has now become a Zel Quartz hot spot." Sabre then asks, "U-u-uhm, what's Zel Quartz." Ratchet then talks, "Zel Quartz is a powerful stone that is formed on the planet Zel Samine. It is an energy-producing planet, creating self-sustaining crystalized ingots and it used to be an Autobot mining facility." Mayday interrupts, "So you guys just took and took from it, hmm?" Ratchet scowls and continues, "For the record, we had to abandon the mining operation as it was killing the planet. What used to be mountains turned into asteroids, and spread themselves across the galaxies. My hypothesis suggests that a Zel Quartz meteor must have landed there many eons ago, and you humans decided to build a living space on top of it." Trakker snaps back, "We don't go digging everywhere underground ya know. Look enough of this crap talk! We've got a Cybertronian comrade in danger, but I've also just revived a report that the civilian Lucina as there as well!" Stereo and Sabre freeze after hearing that, "L-L-Lucina?! S-s-she out there by h-h-herself?" Sabre stutters. Mayday then shouts, "Our comrades are in desperate need of help! We need to go now!" Ratchet then butts in, "Absolutely not! You are staying at this facility until I deem it necessary for you to leave!" Mayday turns to him, "You're just glad to see us perish and die at the hands of cons instead of getting blood all over your hands for a change! Bet that makes you feel better?!" Ratchet booms, "Typical blithering kid. You don't know a single thing. Crooks like you simply don't know your place. You were stupid then, and you're stupid now. You are staying put, and that is FINAL!" Mayday, with a twitch in her eye, punches Ratchet in the face, and they two begin to scuffle and grab each other aggressively. Stereo and Sabre get upset and they both try to pull them apart, "Guys! Please! Stop fighting each other!" Sabre tearfully shouts at them, before Trakker shouts over them all. "Enough! Both of you!" as they stop and restrain themselves, "I've got a whole unit out there who are in need of help, and I don't need another bot in need of medical attention, this ends here now!" Ratchet snarls, "I am not leaving this facility in the hands of humans!" Mayday shouts back, "Grow some god damn backbone Ratchet! My friend is in trouble, and I am going to help him whether you like it or not!" Ratchet snarls as the two of them stare at each other dead in the eyes, with nothing but pure unaltered hate for each other. Ratchet then speaks to Trakker. "You control this facility with your life." Trakker then talks, "Sabre and Pinpoint are staying behind to watch this facility. If that seeker is on the loose then I don't want the Spaceport unprotected. I'm sending a small unit alongside you so the outpost has back. They're waiting for you at the entrance. Go now! The three of you!" Mayday, Stereo and Ratchet then turn into their vehicle forms and they race away towards the outpost with the M.A.S.K. forces behind them carrying Energon supplies and weaponry. Trakker and Sabre run over to the war table and speak over the inter-comm. "Attention all personal. Attention all personal. This is Major Matt Trakker, now assuming Senior Mission Chief of the Earth Spaceport. We are at defensive positions, I repeat, we are at defensive position. This facility is to be under immediate lockdown until further notice. I repeat, this facility is to be under immediate lockdown until further notice."

Mayday, Stereo and Ratchet are racing through the small forest cliff-side roads, with Stereo going slightly in front of the M.A.S.K. forces. Ratchet shouts at Stereo, "Don't go so fast! You'll burn all your energy before you can fight!" Mayday shouts, "We don't need driving lessons from you!" Ratchet scoffs, "It's not just driving lessons you need. When I inform Optimus of your assault, I can guarantee you that you will be sent back to Cybertron's brig, and I can't wait to see Prowl throw away the key." Stereo gasps in shock and Mayday snarls back, "You should be the one imprisoned for all the people you've murdered on Cybertron!" Suddenly, flying over their heads, Nacelle fires down at the moving unit, causing Stereo, Ratchet and Mayday to move themselves into a serpentine format. "Oh great, just great! Another fraggin ambush! Nice going, you blithering idiots! All that noise attracted the Decepticons!" Ratchet shouts at them. The M.A.S.K. forces begin to open fire at the seeker above them and manage to chip damage onto him. "Grah! Hmpf, I've had enough of your games!" He bellows, as he boosts forward in front of the incoming convoy, he converts and begins to blast his null-rays at the front leading Mayday and Ratchet. Ratchet speeds up and tries to overtake Stereo, "I'm gonna ram this bastard! Move out the way!" he yells. Nacelle then blasts Ratchet's front and he yells in pain, "Grah! I need to go faster!" Ratchet shouts, as he tries to go faster, but Mayday seeing the incoming threat, acts instinctively, and rams into Ratchet, sending the two of them tumbling down the small cliff-side, flipping them over, converting and crashing into rocks and rubble. Nacelle blasts towards them in hover mode. Stereo and the M.A.S.K. drivers, still speeding ahead notice this and chat over comms. "What the hell are they doing?" Stereo speaks "Should we stop?" asks the leader driver. "No! We need to get this to the outpost as soon as possible! They can look after themselves!" Stereo says, as herself and the M.A.S.K. convoy speeds on forward and continue toward the outpost.

Mayday and Ratchet then groggily try to stand up as Nacelle hovers above them. He cackles at them. "Oh, how easy this picking of the litter would be! But I think I'll just take it easy today and grab that oh so precious Energon cargo your disgusting humans are carrying!" He smirks at them as they both aim their blasters at him and begin to fire at him. He converts and blasts away, laughing and zooming away after the convoy. Ratchet then begins to limp as he walks slowly alongside the cliff-side. Mayday notices him limping, he has busted his leg pretty bad, with small leaks of Energon pouring out. "Hey!" She says to him, Ratchet ignores her and keeps on walking. "Hey asshole! Your leg is busted open, you're bleeding!" She shouts at him, Ratchet replies, "I don't care...agh...I don't have time to bleed." He continues to shuffle along before he collapses on one knee. "Graaah! Curse these worthless parts…" He shouts at himself, before Mayday comes over. "Let me take a look at it!" she says, before Ratchet swipes her hand away. "Don't touch me. You're already done enough damage, trying to kill me." He snarls at her, she responds, "I just saved your life! If you rammed into him, he would have pulled out his seeker blade and cut you in half!" Ratchet tuts and looks at his leg. "Grah...it would have assisted the mission." Mayday then butts in, "Oh yeah? Is the 'mission' a suicide demolition derby? Is your 'mission' to keep a war going so more innocents can die?! Why do you care so much about a mission?!" Ratchet then turns to her and scream in her face, "Because the mission is all I have!" He shouts at her, causing nearby birds to scatter in fear from their nesting tree. They are now both in silence, both standing there, staring at each other. Mayday, simply starts to shake her head. "What happened to you?" She says, before Ratchet responds, "What do you mean by that?", Mayday responds, "As in, what happened to you man...you're Ratchet. You were known for being a medic." Ratchet then grits his teeth, "I wasn't just a 'medic', I was THE medic Primus dammit." Mayday then simply shakes her head again and looks at him. "And yet, here you are. Cowering at the bottom of a cliff, with a leg busted open. You've turned from an inspiration into an angry and poor...poor old bot." Ratchet then scoffs back, "I don't need your sympathy. Why the hell do you care huh, why do you give a shit?" Mayday then shouts back, "Because you were MY inspiration!" Ratchet stares at her, as she continues to talk, "You were MY teacher! You are the one who I studied with at the Autobot Medical Academy! I looked up to you! I wanted nothing more in the world then to be as great as you, so fraggin badly, that I went countless nights without sleeping just so I could qualify to become an official medical officer! Oh but oh no! You became just another solider! You made me want to help the world, by healing it! Not by destroying it!" Ratchet continues to stare at her, listening to her rant closely. "So yeah." She wipes away her eyes. "That's why I care." she says, as she sits down. Ratchet looks away, and sits there thinking for a few moments, and then sighs. He waves his hand for Mayday to come over. Mayday then wipes her eyes and sits beside Ratchet. They awkwardly sit in silence before Ratchet then leans over to her, and asks, "Do you still remember how to patch a wound?", Mayday then speaks, "Mhm…" Ratchet then speaks, "Good. Then how about this, you patch me up, and I'll give you...a final grade."

Stereo and the M.A.S.K. forces are approaching the outpost. Lucina sees them coming and waves her hand. "Disable the shield! Backup is here!" she yells, as Warzone takes his hand off the shield generator and gasps as he sits back down against the wall. He has lost a lot of energon. Stereo and the M.A.S.K. forces drive to them; the forces converge and exchange weaponry whilst Stereo takes the energon over to Warzone. "Here you go big guy." She says, as Warzone attempts to take some. "Heh, I appreciate the help kid." Warzone says as Stereo smiles weakly, before Warzone grunts and sighs, "Hate to be a downer, but all that Energon is just lending me more time." Stereo confused asks, "What do you mean? You've got the Energon!" Warzone replies, "Yeah, I do, but it's keeping it in me that's the problem. Gah…" He holds his open wounds, received from the hit at his cog earlier and the damages attempting to transform with a broken cog. Stereo looks around to see Lucina, still okay. She then walks over to Lucina and speaks to her, "Thank Primus you're okay. Look, I'm gonna have to defend this point, and I don't have a lot of back up. I'm gonna need you to ask one of those M.A.S.K. guys down there to get yourself kitted out." Lucina then steps down off the crates she was on and armours herself. "You've fought seekers before Stereo! You should be able to take em on all by yourself." Lucina says, before Stereo responds, "I'm not sure Lucina. It took 2 of us to take down on beginner seekers, this guy seems a lot more dangerous and experienced. If he managed to take Warzone out, then imagine what he could do to me." Lucina then gulps worryingly then as she continues to armour herself up. Suddenly, a sonic boom is heard, as Warzone shouts, "He's back!" and points to the sky to see the approaching seeker, returning back. Stereo gives Warzone one of her blasters, and runs over to the M.A.S.K. forces, "You guys arms yourself and do not stop firing on him!" She then aims her gun at the incoming Nacelle. "Fire!" she shouts, and begins shooting.

Mayday reconnects the right points into the right sections, as she operates on Ratchet's leg. "You're a natural kid. You're nailing it." Ratchet speaks to her; she simply smiles and continues to work. "Hey, I got all the training from you, ya know." she says, at Ratchet smiles back. He then turns his head away and begins to talk. "I-...ahem...I really, didn't want to...become what I am." Mayday simply shakes her head and continues to work. "Save your strength." Ratchet talks more, "No...I mean it. I… I don't like what I did. In fact, I hate what I did, but… it wasn't because I wanted to see suffering." Mayday continues to work whilst listening to Ratchet as he continues, "I hate this was more than anything. I used to be somebody who, people would come to and see hope, now everybody is firmer, and quieter. I've turned into somebody to fear… this god damn war… I didn't want to do it. I turned into a frontman, because it was necessary at the time. We needed to win, no matter the cost. I wanted to give out all the supplies to everybody, and I hate that the Autobots hoarded them, but if we didn't keep those supplies for ourselves, then Megatron would have seized our planet, and taken over our race, and you and I would most likely have ceased to exist." Mayday works more and says, "Yeah well, I'd rather have died knowing that the 'rebellion' wasn't being picky with who to help." Ratchet lies back and says, "You may be well indeed be suffering from the… atrocities of the war, but know this." He turns Mayday to him, making her focus entirely on him. "You are not haunted by the living nightmares that roam around in your head, taunting you for a decision that clings to the very memory diode in your processing unit. I hope you can rest easy knowing that I am not going to live mentally well for the rest of my existence. I... put you away for trying to help the ones who were in need. People who the Autobots should have been helping. I… am a curse... a poison… and I should not have kept those resources… I… I am so sorry…" Mayday looks at Ratchet's face and listened to his words carefully. He is an emotional wreck, and is guilt ridden in his vocal processing. Mayday then speaks, "I can't forgive you for what you've done to me, and for what you've done to those on Cybertron." Ratchet simply nods his head, for he is ready to accept whatever outcome comes to him. Mayday then finished up working on his leg, "But, we can work on it." She stands up and opens up a hand. Ratchet takes the hand and is helped up. "Gah...thanks, kid." He then puts his hand on her shoulder. "You've passed with flying colours."

Stereo gets flung across through a building by Nacelle, who is grabbing her by the neck. "Are you having fun yet, Autobot?" he taunts her, before slamming her into the ground. "What a pathetic excuse for so-called back-up." He then kicks her, sending her rolling along into a wall. He then turns and aims his null-ray at the laying Warzone, "Hope you're enjoying the show, but now, it's lights out!" he smirks as he almost fires, but a M.A.S.K.4X4 vehicle drives by, with an armoured Lucina on the mini-gun, she takes aim and fires at Nacelle, causing him to lose his aim and fire at the wall instead. "Grah!" he screams in annoyance. "Fine! I'll destroy you first!" He converts and chases down the now speeding truck. Warzone tries to crawl away, but can't move without damaging himself more. "Stereo! Get up! Lucina's in danger!" he shouts, as Stereo emerges from the rubble. She is very damaged and tries getting up before falling back down. "A-a-agh...i-i-i'm hurt real bad Warzone…" she says to herself. Nacelle fires off a load of missiles at the 4X4 vehicle, as Lucina tries to aim and fire back at Nacelle, who keeps dodging the mini-gun fire. "How the hell is this guy managing to move that fast?!" she shouts, as Nacelle shoots his null-rays in front of the car, causing a chunk of the concrete in front of the car to explode, as the 4X4 flips over, sending Lucina and the M.A.S.K. driver rolling out of the vehicle and hitting on the ground. Lucina gets up and tries to run for it, but her arm is broken, she clutches it and runs around a corner as Nacelle transformers and slams his hand into the building, just barely missing Lucina. "Come here girl! I want to see the very last second that you realise, you are going to die!" Lucina tries to run faster, but ends up getting cornered by a pile of rumble and a wall. She pants in fear as she turns to see the slowly approaching Nacelle. Stereo tries to crawl faster, but Nacelle simply stomps on Stereo's head, keeping her weak body down. He then aims his null-ray at Lucina. "You humans are giving me such a headache." He speaks. "Sounds like you need a doctor!" said a voice.

Nacelle turns around to see Ratchet, as he instantly punches Nacelle in the face, sending him through a building. "Ho-oah!" Ratchet yells in triumph. Lucina collapses to a knee, seeing Mayday roll up beside her. "Are you hurt?" Mayday says, Lucina waves her arm, "I'm, fine! Go and help Warzone, please!" Lucina begs, Mayday then nods, converts and rolls out to find Warzone. Ratchet helps Stereo up off the ground. "How you doing sport? You can't fight cons whilst you're in the ground like that!" Stereo, astounded by what she heard, simply just nods and turns her head, to see Nacelle in the debris. "I don't care how many of you there are, I'll destroy all of you!" Nacelle then flies in hover mode, through the hole in the wall and grabs Ratchet, flying them through the air. Stereo shakilly makes her way over to Lucina, "Hey kid...let's go see a medic." Lucina smiles, as they both walk away from the destroyed area. Mayday converts near the badly damaged Warzone, and approaches him with a medi-gel dispenser. "Hold still whilst I reattach your mid-section plating." Warzone smiles, "My hero." Mayday smirks, "Hey don't thank me yet, hold tight whilst I work." She then starts patching up Warzone in loads of different ways before coming across a problem she's never seen before. She actually sees the exposed automatic repair system hanging out from Warzone's chest. "Uh...bare with me one moment." She says to Warzone, as she then speaks on comms. "Uh, Ratchet, you got a moment?" Ratchet is fighting Nacelle hand-to-hand inside of an empty building, as he hears her trying to talk on comms. "Hang on one second!" Ratchet speaks, before grabbing Nacelle by the neck and slamming his face into the wall, silencing him whilst he shakes around trying to get free, muffling into the wall. "Go ahead, doctor." Ratchet says on comms. Mayday then responds, "I'm currently looking at Warzone's ARS. It's covered in Decepticon encrypted connection points." Ratchet then speaks back, "Mhm, that is a challenge.", as he reaffirms his grip with Nacelle's neck. "Do you see any other systems exposed, but connected?" Ratchet says, as Mayday looks around. "I see… some photocells and sensors." She replies, Ratchet then speaks, "Good. Follow those vital signals on those attached parts and you'll be able to reconnect the ARS easy-peasy." Mayday then begins to tinker more with Warzone's exposed area. "Thanks Ratchet!" she says, as Ratchet then takes Nacelle off the wall. "Don't you know it's rude to talk when people are on the phone?" he speaks before throwing Nacelle through the wall. Nacelle flies through and lands on the road towards the main entrance to the town. He struggles to stand up, "Grah… I'm not through with you yet!" He screams, just before Warzone walks around the corner, mini-gun in hand and aims it at Nacelle. "That's good for you! Cause I got all day!" Warzone grins as he fires his gun, Nacelle freaking out, converting and then blasts away as quickly as he can. Ratchet simply laughs, "Good riddance!" He swipes his hands clean of the dust and does a thumbs-up at Warzone. "Nice shooting soldier." he compliments him, to which Warzone confusingly replies with, "Uh… heh… hey you weren't so bad yourself." Ratchet then speaks on comms, "Hey Trakker, rescue mission was a success. Hey, do me a favour and bring a mining team. We've got some Quartz to quarry!"

An hour later, the town is now sealed off, and the miners are now digging below the house to search for the Zel Quartz that lays beneath the town. Ratchet looks around to see the miners at work, and sees Stereo talking sternly to an upset Lucina. He walks over to them. "You shouldn't have hidden yourself away like that Lucina! You could have gotten yourself killed out here!" Stereo yells at Lucina, to which she simply hangs her head in shame. Ratchet then taps Stereo on the shoulder, "Hey kid, I got this." Stereo baffled, let's Ratchet walk past him. Ratchet crouches down to Lucina. "Hey, troublemaker." He says to Lucina, who speaks back, "I-I-I'm sorry. I didn't mean to sneak away again...I just.. I really want to see what's going on, and I want to help out!" Ratchet simply smiles. "Hey, don't worry about it little one. I get what you mean." Ratchet then looks at the nearby Mayday and winks, before turning back to Lucina. "Tell you what squirt. We'll make a deal." Lucina looks up at Ratchet. "A deal?" She curious asks back, and Ratchet says, "Yes. A deal. If you promise me, not to sneak out again without myself or Trakker's permission, I'll make you Mission Chief Assistant." Lucina gasps in happiness, "Y-y-y-you mean I get to operate the war table? And see all the stuff overhead?" Ratchet smiles, "Hey, I said assistant. You do what I say and we'll get along just fine." Lucina smiles, "Oh thank you so much Ratchet!" Lucina then runs up and hugs Ratchet's forearm. Ratchet freezes in place for a second, getting deja vu, to an older memory, back when he was beginning as a medic. He helped a very young Cybertronian, who had hurt themselves, and needed medical assistance. That same young Cybertronian, hugged Ratchet in the very same way, overwhelmed with the memories, he got a little mistry eyed. "Yes, well...ahem. Don't take it lightly, kid." A M.A.S.K. soldier runs up to Ratchet and speaks to him, "We've got a massive load of the Zel Quartz ready for transport!" Ratchet smiles, "Excellent work troop! Let's head back to base immediately. Autobots, roll out!" Ratchet, Warzone, Mayday and Stereo convert into their vehicle modes, Lucina jumps in Stereo's cab and they drive off heading back towards the Earth Spaceport.

Some time later, the Renegades and Ratchet are surrounding what seems like to be a chamber unit, hooked up to a supply of Zel Quartz and Energon. "You uh...sure this is gonna work? I mean, the Zel Quartz worked to power the VR training room perfectly fine, but mixing this with Energon? Seems a bit risky if you ask me." Mayday asks Pinpoint, to which he replies, "Of course it will, this cryogenic regeneration chamber will be most a huge benefactor for us! Using power from the newly acquired Zel Quartz and a pinch of Energon engineer, myself and Ratchet have come up with a brilliant device that can help us heal a lot more quickly and efficiently without using up all of our Energon supply!" Warzone scoffs, "Seems like you're just diluting the Energon with the Zel Quartz." Pinpoint scoffs, "Well, smart stuff. Why don't you try it out for yourself?", Warzone who is still damaged from earlier, replies, "Alright then I will!" He enters the small chamber, as it fills up with a liquid energy and surrounds him. The chamber reacts and begins to charge Warzone up with a special fusion of the sources, regenerating his entire body back to as if it was new. A few moments later, he exits the chamber. Pinpoint grins, "So, what dya think?" Warzone is astounded, "Dear Primus that...that was amazing...it felt like, it felt like there was something missing inside of me….but now I know who I am!" Warzone was beaming with pride, as he looked like a completely fresh new bot. The Renegades are astounded. "I wanna go next!" Sabre says, "Nu-uh! I go next! You weren't damaged at all!" Stereo says as they bicker between themselves, as Ratchet watches them from afar, smiling to himself. Suddenly he is then greeted by Mayday. "Hey old timer." She waves to him. Ratchet smiles back, "Well howdy do." Mayday responds, "It's really nice to see what you've done. You've improved your relationship with the humans, and you've even helped us make a breakthrough in healing tech. Maybe there's some medic in you after all?" Ratchet laughs and talks, "If it were only that easy Mayday. Those days are long past me now. All I can do is pass on my knowledge to the next generation, and to much more well-deserved individuals. Speaking of which." He reaches behind himself and pulls out an unopened datatrax. Mayday takes it, "What's this?" She asks, and Ratchet responds, "Go on, open it." Mayday opens up the datatrax, and it reveals itself to be an Official Autobot Doctor's Licence. Mayday stares in awe for a few seconds, before stuttering, "Y-y-you mean I-i'm…?" Ratchet grins and responds, "Mhm. You are now an officially qualified doctor, and I am so undeniably proud of you." Mayday beams in total happiness as she puts the datatrax away and grabs Ratchet's hand. "Come on." She says, as she tries to pull him somewhere. "What is this?" Ratchet asks, and Mayday responds, "Come on, I wanna show you something." Trakker arrives back at the table. "Hey Ratchet! Don't you want to help me with all thi-", he sees Mayday and Ratchet drive out of the Spaceport. "….this paperwork." he finished, before sighing in massive annoyance.

Mayday and Ratchet arrive at a hillside, they convert and they walk along the side of it. Ratchet speaks to Mayday, "You know, I'm only allowing this cause I'm with you." Mayday laughs it off and sits at this one point. "Sit here." She pats beside her as Ratchet sits down next to her. Ratchet looks out to see Central City. "We're a fair bit away from there. Nobody will see us here, which is good, cause this is a really nice view." Ratchet says as Mayday talks, "What do you see Ratchet?" Ratchet then looks around and talks, "Uh… I see trees, the sea at the very back uh… humans living their lives?" Mayday snaps her fingers, "Boom. You got it." Ratchet looks confused, "I mean, it's just humans living their lives." Mayday continues, "Yes, it's humans living their lives. But don't you see the beauty in that? I've only lived with a few humans at the base but, this planet is so beautiful. It's just, blooming with so much personality, and colour!" Ratchet looks around, actually taking in all the details of the landscape. Mayday continues, "Don't you just, want to protect it?" Ratchet nods, and Mayday speaks, "If you want something good to fight for, then, this ain't that bad of a choice." Ratchet looks at Mayday, and then back out to the landscape again, before smiling and nodding. "Mhm… what a noble cause, eh? Fighting for the humans, heheh." They both look out to the landscape and watch the peaceful world simply go by, as the sun descends into the sea.

Nacelle crashes into a secret base, and tries to get himself back up as he walks across the hidden caverns and finds Megatron and Starscream. "Lord Megatron!" Nacelle speaks as he kneels. Megatron turns and speaks to him, "And what have you found to offer me, Nacelle?" he says, as Nacelle holds up a small fractured piece of the Zel Quartz. "I found a whole core of Zel Quartz beneath the crust of this planet." Megatron snatches the piece and inspects it closer. "By Primus… it really is Zel Quartz." Megatron says, and Starscream replies, "How on Earth did it manage to get to… well… Earth?" Megatron looks down at Nacelle, "I am not sure, but you served your purpose well Nacelle." Starscream snarls and speaks "So where is the rest of the Zel Quartz?" Nacelle then trembles as he speaks, "T-t-the humans have...c-captured the rest." Megatron growls with an angry expression, and swats Nacelle away. "You fool! How could you let the humans get away with the Zel Quartz!" Megatron booms at him, to which a cowering Nacelle replies, "Please, my master, I only exist to serve you! I'll do whatever you need", Megatron then aims his fusion cannon at Nacelle. "Quite right you are!", he yells as he blasts Nacelle with a clean shot right through him, with Starscream grinning in the back. "I need spare parts." Megatron smirks and begins cackling throughout the caverns, as Scraplings emerge from the walls, notice the parts and crawl towards their next meal.

THE END