Optimus: "Previously on Transformers Prime"... Megatron: "It's as if the blood of Unicron the Destroyer flows through my veins." Megatron flies off somewhere. Ratchet: "Dark energon? It's so scarce as to be virtually nonexistent." Fowler: "Contact with civilians!" Bulkhead blocks Fowler. "We're protecting them." Starscream: "Fetch me this Fowler." Laserbeak flies off with Fowler. Starscream: "Tell me the location of the Autobot base." Bulkhead: "It's an S.O.S." Bulkhead is at the warship with Miko. Jack, Raf and Nakala arrive on the scene and get spotted by 'cons. Bulkhead and Miko: "Scrap." Megatron: "Rise my army!" Terrorcons rise from the ground in front of Optimus, Elita, and Ratchet. "BEHOLD..THE POWER OF DARK ENERGON!"

Terrorcons rise from the ground growling and moaning as they march toward the three Autobots in front of them. Ratchet: "Megatron has desecrated the resting place of our fallen ancestors, and his own." Elita: "Just when we thought he couldn't be any more cruel than before." Optimus: "Not even the dead are free from his war-mongering." Megatron: "At last, symbiosis. I can feel it. I possess complete control over my army. Destroy them!"  The terrorcons close in on them, but Optimus and Elita start shooting at them while also backing up 'cuz of the numbers. The terrorcons are hardly even fazed by the shots, but do fall down eventually. Ratchet: "Optimus, If our combatants are already deceased, how can we possible defeat them?"

Optimus: "Ratchet, retreat! Bridge yourself back to base!" Elita: "We'll handle this from here!" Ratchet: "No! I shall stand with you two to the end." he said unsheathing his blades. "You both may require a medic when this is over with." He slashes a couple of terrorcons while Elita and Optimus continue shooting. But after cutting down a terrorcon, Ratchet notices something and gets an idea for this to go by faster. "I recommend dissection. The smaller the pieces, the better!" Both Optimus and Elita stop shooting. "Sound advice, old friend." Optimus says unsheathing his blades as well while Elita unsheathes her claws. (A/N: I decided to do something a little unique for Elita since I never saw anyone else have claws as their weapons instead of just their fingers. So think of them as Lynx's claws from Shadow Fight 2, if anyone knows that game.) All three begin slashing and cutting down the terrorcons then stand back to back, while Optimus looks up at Megatron who is just simply watching. "I have mastered dark energon. When you fall Optimus, you shall join my army." he says before the three got back to fighting.

Back at the site of the Nemesis, the vehicons begin shooting at Jack, Raf and Nakala. Nakala activates his mass-shifter in response and grows to the size of Soundwave again. Raf gets knocked back and Jack gets on top of him while Nakala stands in front of the two and splits his weapon in half. Now he uses one half in blaster mode and other half makes a small blade that he uses to block the blasts. Bulkhead then drives over to the group and opens his door for Jack and Raf. "Get in! Now!" Nakala: "Go! *Luckily their not that good of shots*" Jack and Raf get in Bulkhead and he drives them away while Nakala runs forward to the ship while shooting and trying to dodge at the same time. Jack: "Thanks Bulkhead." Raf: "Yeah, thanks." Bulkhead: "Wh- What are you doing here?!" Jack: "We were worried about Miko. Have you seen her?" Miko then appears from back seats and says, "What she look like?" causing Jack and Raf to just look at each other.

Bulkhead goes behind a rock and opens his door again. "Everyone out. And this time, please wait here! I'm gonna help Nakala." Nakala makes his way under the ship where he knows the 'cons won't see him and put his weapon back together. He scanned his surroundings while running and noticed that he can grab on to a part of ship sticking way out if he climbs the cliff. He noticed Bulkhead heading his way and began running to the cliff signaling him to follow. Once they make it to the cliff, Bulkhead transformers and jumps on the cliff, with Nakala doing the same. "Nakala! Get to your friends." "They'll be fine. Your war. My planet. Mine to protect. Let's go." he said before climbing with Bulkhead doing the same. Once they were high enough, they leap off the cliff and grab on to the part of ship. A vehicon runs over to a spot to find where the two went, but not before he got grabbed by the lag and thrown down by Bulkhead.

Nakala and Bulkhead climb up on the deck of the ship and Nakala charges the vehicon closest to them. He blocks the blaster shot with the blade and stabs it's spark chamber, kicks the 'con down while pulling the blade out, then lunges forward to stab it's head for good measure. The other vehicon started to shoot them, but Nakala uses the body of the one he killed as a shield. Bulkhead shot back at the 'con which knocked it back, then charges at the 'con, leaps in the air and body slams him. Bulkhead looks toward the rock he left the kids at, but he saw that Miko was missing again. "Where's Miko?!" he calls out before hearing knocking coming from inside him. Bulkhead opens up his chest and out comes Miko breathing gasping in relief it seems. Bulkhead: "Miko?" Miko: "I heaved on your floor mats. Sorry." she said before retching again.

Nakala sighs in annoyance at this as Bulkhead lets her down on the floor. "Remind me never to do that again." Right after she says that, a vehicon comes out of no where and pounces Bulkhead, hanging on to his back. Bulkhead grabs the vehicon and throws him to the ground, turning hand into a mace and starts smashing the 'cons' face. But he stops when he looks over to Nakala and Miko and sees a hatch opening up with two more 'con coming out. Nakala immediately grabs Miko and throws her to Bulkhead so he can focus on the two 'cons alone. He takes down one of them but turns to see three more 'cons behind the second one with blasters ready. "Nakala, get down!" he hears Bulkhead yell out. He looks over to see him holding what looks to be a satellite dish and ducks down as he throws it, knocking down the four 'cons. Bulkhead walks over to him with Miko in his hands, then they both get shot at by more 'cons from behind. "Come on!" Nakala says in a quiet yell as they enter the open hatch.

Meanwhile, Jack and Raf are on still behind the rock wondering what's going on up there. "Think they forgot about us?" Raf asked with Jack shrugging in response. Then they heard footsteps from behind them and turn to see two vehicons reaching for them. Nakala and Bulkhead are running around the warship looking for Fowler. Apparently Miko has serious motion sickness cuz she is about to puke again. Two more 'cons then appear from around a corner and spot them. "How many of them are there?" Nakala asked before speeding up and throwing the staff at the head of one of them 'cons. The other 'con begins to shoot at him, but Nakala lowered his upper body more then does a jump kick when he's close enough. It knocks the 'con back and leaves it staggered long enough for him to grab his spear and slice off the 'cons head. "Woah!" Miko said. "You're pretty a good fighter." Bulkhead complimented. Nakala looks at them before looking away and saying, "Not that well. Just enough for defense."

On a different part of the ship, the two vehicons from outside are holding Jack and Raf hostage. "Bring them to the Brig. Commander Starscream is keeping the other human there." one of them said. Jack and Raf look at each other and know that he was talking about Agent Fowler. Bumblebee then comes out of no where in his alt mode and knocks the two down, which causes them to accidentally fling Jack and Raf in the air. Luckily, Arcee was with Bee so she transforms to her bipedal form to catch the two and set them down gently with a smile. Raf: "Bumblebee!" Bee: "[buzzes and beeps]" Arcee: "Appreciate you clearing the front door for us, but storming the Decepticon warship was not on the activities list." Jack: "Tell me about it." They run down the hallway and stop at a corner where Arcee pulls out her blaster. She turns the corner only to see Bulkhead with his blaster ready as well, with Nakala standing beside him ready to strike.

Arcee: "Friendly!" Bulkhead: "Hello!" "[sigh] Brought the humans huh?" "You try getting them to stay behind!" he said pointing Miko to let Arcee know it was her fault. Arcee: "Nakala, are you okay?" Nakala: "I'm fine." he said putting a hand on her shoulder. "Jack?" "Don't worry about me, I'm okay. And so is Raf." Arcee: "Let's find Fowler and get these kids out of here." she says to Bulkhead and Bumblebee. Jack and Raf: "He's in the brig." Back at the brig, we see Fowler still hanging from the chains like he's been crucified, and not in good shape it seems either. "My dear Agent Fowler, you do realize the Autobots have abandoned you. [chuckles] I am the only one you can rely upon now. So tell me what I need to know, or..." he activates the prod again and inches it closer to Fowler. "[tired and hurt] Please, no more. They're in...secret government base." "Go on." Then the sound of muffled blaster fire can be heard from outside the brig, causing the two to look toward the door. Starscream looks back at Fowler, uninterested in the sound at the moment. "Yes?" "In the old steel mill. Or was it under that carnival funhouse?"

Starscream gets angry and zaps Fowler again, knocking him out. More blaster fire can be heard and it starts to irritate Starscream. He needs more time with Fowler to get the info the 'cons need for victory. "Someone find out what is going on out there!" he orders the two vehicons with him. Somewhere outside the brig, we see the humans standing in between the 'bots and Nakala who are fighting off some 'cons on both sides of the hallway. Bumblebee and Bulkhead are being the range while Nakala and Arcee are being the melee. Jack, Raf and Miko were almost crushed a couple of times, but they didn't get a single scratch. "Tired of this." Nakala said not wanting to fight anymore. "Y'all know where brig is?" Arcee: "We've been on this ship before. Shouldn't be much farther."

Meanwhile, Optimus, Elita and Ratchet are still fighting off the terrorcons. Their strength was even giving out, but it wasn't from the fighting alone. Ratchet: "[tired] Optimus, this prolonged exposure to dark energon is sapping our strength." Optimus: "We cannot falter now." The three get back to fighting the terrorcons, but Optimus has too many closed in on him that they start holding him down. Elita: "Optimus!" Ratchet turns to see what happened for just a second, but even 1 second was enough time for a terrorcon to grab onto Ratchet so another one from behind can grab onto him. Elita notices that Ratchet is now too being held down and piled on. "Ratchet!" she yells trying to get her sparkmate and her friend. Megatron watches this from above, knowing she only has time to save one. Elita is closer to Ratchet which means Optimus might die first. She gets the terrorcons out of her way and saves Ratchet, but as the two were going to save Optimus, one of the terrorcons that started climbing the others to reach for Optimus got stabbed.

"YAAAH!" Optimus yells as he destroys all the terrorcons that had him pinned down. "[sighs lovingly] That's why I love him." Megatron: "After all these years, Optimus, still at the top of your game." Optimus stood by Elita and Ratchet, noticing Ratchet only has one good arm now. Elita:  "Can you still fight Ratchet?" Ratchet: "Yeah. But this arm won't be useful for now." Optimus: "Stay by his side, Elita." Elita nods her head and the three got back to focusing on the terrorcons. Megatron: "My legion, FINISH THEM!" The three started fighting the terrorcons again, making sure to no let any of them get behind them so they won't get dog piled again.

Back on the warship, one of the vehicons in the Bridge is walking towards the left door after hearing knocking. As soon as he opens it, he gets his head chopped off by Nakala and the 'bots clear out the rest of the 'cons in the room. Arcee: "Clear." she says, allowing Jack, Raf and Miko to enter the room. "Nakala, wait in here with them." The three look at her in confusion. Bee: "[buzzes in confusion]" Arcee: "They're slowing us down, and they're easy targets. They'll be alright in here, as long as they stay put." she says walking out with her blaster ready again. Bulkhead and Bumblebee do the same and the door closes on the four humans. Nakala deactivates his mass shifter to get to their level of height.

Miko: "That...was intense!" she said clearly ignoring the fact that they almost died. Raf: "Was?" Jack: "It's your fault that were stuck in this intensity. What were you thinking Miko?" he asks angrily. Miko: "Did I ask you to follow me?" Jack: "You wanted us to be a band. Doesn't that usually mean playing together?" Miko: "Well, maybe I decided to go solo." Jack: "Well, maybe I have some concerns for your safety." Nakala notices that Raf is getting rather upset at this, and not in the mad way. Miko: "Oh, I'm sorry. Is your name "Optimus"? You can leave my protection to Bulkhead, thank you very much!" Raf: "Aah! Stop it! Both of you!" he screams as he runs toward the edge of the giant steps and puts his head on his knees. Nakala just shakes his head at the two who then go over to comfort him.

Jack: "Oh, hey ,hey, Raf, Raf, It's okay." Miko: "Yeah. We're gonna be fine." Jack: "Our bots will come back for us." Miko: "Yeah. They're gonna take us home." Raf: "How do you know?" Nakala looks away from them and eyes a screen with something on it that seems real important. "Hm. Strange." Jack: "What's wrong?" Nakala points at the screen and the three look at it. Miko: "What is it?" Raf makes his way down the giant steps to get a better angle of it with the other three following. Raf: "It's important. Real important." Nakala: "Agreed." Meanwhile, Starscream is still in the Brig with Fowler and hears the blaster fire getting closer to him. "Wake up you pathetic lump of flesh!" he yells. Fowler wakes up a bit but is so hurt that he's somehow drunk. (A/N: How the hell does that even work?) "Mm. Grandma, is it cookie time?" he says before going slump again. Starscream sighs angrily before a knock on the door is heard, getting his attention. It opens up and there's a vehicon on the other side, but little did Starscream know that it was dead. "Well?" he asks. It drops down to reveal Bulkhead who shoots at the remaining Vehicon in the room. Bumblebee then comes in with his blasters aimed at Starscream and Bulkhead doing the same. Starscream aims his blaster at Fowler in response saying "Not so fast." A tap on his head is felt as he looks up to see Arcee aiming her blaster at him. Arcee: "I wouldn't." Starscream: "Oh, but I might."

Raf: "We gotta get this to Optimus." Miko: "How do you both know it isn't a recipe for space nachos?" Raf: "Me and Nakala know math when we see it, and that is one serious equation." Jack: "Can you...download it?" Raf: "[thinks] I got a flash drive. But I don't see anywhere to plug it in. This tech is way alien." Nakala: Hm...Wait. Miko, take a picture." Miko: "Great idea." she says as she takes out her phone to take a picture. Just as she was about to, a vehicon suddenly walk in and notices the dead body of another. The four notice him and run behind a pillar, but not after Miko decides to take a picture of the guy. Raf notices he left his backpack and runs back to get it, which was a stupid move cuz the 'con turned to see him and aimed its blaster at him. Meanwhile in the Brig, Starscream and the 'bots are staring each other down, waiting for one to make the first move. Starscream decided to break the silence that filled the room.

"Now, Agent Fowler and I will and take our leave." Fowler: "The emu says, "Yeah!"" It distracted Scream long enough for the Arcee to make the first move, which makes Starscream scream and dodge. Bulkhead and Bumblebee fire with Arcee, not wanting to give him a chance to fire back. Starscream had enough of dodging already and transformed into his jet mode and flies off, knocking Arcee back. Arcee: "Ohh!" Bulkhead: "Whoa!" While that was happening, the vehicon is about to kill Raf, but Jack wasn't gonna let that happen. He runs towards Raf as he runs away from the 'con. The 'con luckily missed a few times, but one blast would've hit Raf if Jack didn't dive in and move push him out of the way. Seeing Jack almost getting shot nearly triggered something within Nakala that has laid dormant all these years.

"Not again. Not again. Not again!" he yelled running forward and revealing his four tentacles on his back and front. He stretched them out and let them zap latch on the 'con facing Jack and Raf and zapped him 'til he died. Jack, Raf, and Miko look on in awe at his tentacles, wondering why he never showed those when they already knew about his mass shifter and staff. Nakala took a moment to calm down before looking at the three staring at him. He knew he wasn't gonna be able to keep it a secret forever, but he didn't want him to be in this kind of situation. "Take the picture first, then I'll talk." he said to Miko while pointing at the screen with the "serious equation." Miko immediately did that and turned back to Nakala. "Don't tell anyone this, but I've always known I wasn't really human. Ever since I first discovered these things." he said letting them near his friends. "But it wasn't just these that I discovered about myself. I found out what my true form is..." he continued as he started to glow and grow. Jack, Raf and Miko covered their eyes 'cuz of how bright it was, then saw a tall, slender mech with a visor take Nakala's place. They just stare at in him in awe as he kneels closer to them and speaks through the visor.

"This is who I really am." Miko: "You're a cybertronian? That's so cool!" Jack: "How long have you known? And how come you never told me?" Nakala: "Wanted to know who I truly was myself. Didn't want you in danger. Known before...that happened." Raf and Miko were confused of what he meant but Jack knew all too well what he was talking about. "None of this changes a few facts: I'm still human. You are still my brother. June is still is my mother." he said before having a happy smile appear on his visor while holding out one of his fingers to Jack. Jack smiled back and placed a hand on the finger with Miko and Raf watching the warmhearted moment. Before anything else could be said or done, they sounds of engines could be heard from behind the walls. The group knew it was Autobots coming back for them so Nakala quickly stood up and turned to the screen to take a picture of it with his visor then quickly turned back into a human just before the 'bots entered the room.

Arcee: "Glad to see you stayed put." Nakala: "Fowler found?" Arcee: "Alive, but needs to recover. He's inside Bumblebee. Now, let's get out of here." Miko got in Bulkhead, Raf got in Bumblebee, and Jack and Nakala hopped on Arcee and they all drove out of there. Meanwhile, Optimus, Elita, and Ratchet have finished off the rest of the terrorcons, which Megatron was somewhat impressed about. "Bravo Optimus! Though this but a prelude. You may wish to save your strength for the main event." Optimus unsheathes his blades and starts climbing the rock Megatron is standing on. "You will not prevail, Megatron [breathing heavily] not while energon still flows through my veins." he finishes just as he reaches the top. "Fitting, for it is dark energon which flows through mine." Optimus tries to grab Megatron, but he jumps up and transforms to his flight mode and flies off with Optimus trying to shoot him down but missing. Elita climbs up with Ratchet following afterwards, and the three of them stare down at the battlefield below, questioning Megatron's words. Elita: "I don't get it. This is the largest cybertronian battle site in this galaxy." Ratchet: "And it was only a small taste. So what is his endgame?" he asks and he and Elita look up at Optimus for answer, but he doesn't have one.

 With everyone now back at the base, Optimus helps Ratchet put something on his arm. (A/N: Idk what it is. I can only assume it's a cybertronian arm sling.) Ratchet then walks over to where the humans and Bulkhead are and Miko asks, "What happened to you guys, anyway?" Ratchet: "Engaged and army of undead cybertronian warriors." Miko: "Zombies? You fought zombies and I missed it?!" Optimus: "Bulkhead, you exercised extremely poor judgment in allowing the humans to accompany you." Bulkhead stand back up and looks at Miko before responding. "It won't happen again, Optimus. I promise." Miko: "But it wasn't Bulkhead's fault." Bulkhead: "Miko, please!" Miko: "And check it out. Recon." she says taking out her phone and showing the photo of the schematics they found on the ship. Optimus: "Hmm. Ratchet, have a look. It could be of importance to Megatron." Jack: "Whoa. Megatron's back? That's really bad news right?" Ratchet looks at the photo and is puzzled. "I don't understand." he says, which causes Miko to look at her phone and see it went to the next photo of the vehicon.

"Oops. That's the vehicon who tried to blow Raf away. At least that's what he looked like 'til Nakala sent him to the scrapyard." she said slowly then excitedly which angers Jack again. "Miko. Raf was almost killed. This isn't a game! When are you gonna get that through your thick skull?!" "Um, we were all almost killed, Jack: You, me, Raf, even them." Nakala was too getting angered, especially since she just said that about Jack almost getting killed too. Jack: "Well, if this was just an average day with the Autobots, then I don't want to be a part of it - not anymore." Miko: "Typical coward response." she mutters. Jack: "COWARD!! I put myself in a battle of titans just to rescue not only you, but Raf as well!" That just about it did it for Nakala as he showed his tentacles and snatched Miko with one of them to bring her close to his angered face, shocking the Autobots. They weren't shocked 'cuz of the fact that he has tentacles too or that he just pulled Miko like that, but because there was one cybertronian they know that has the same kind of tentacles. But there's also the fact that Nakala's eyes started to glow a violet purple.

"Listen here you low-brain celled, pathetic excuse of a human being! Quit trying to change the fact that YOU put yourself out there just cuz you want some action! Like Jack said, this is not a game! This is real life! No second chances!! IF YOU WANT TO GET YOURSELF SQUISHED OR BLOWN TO BITS CUZ YOU'RE TOO STUPID TO DO SO, GO RIGHT AHEAD! NO ONE IS GOING TO MISS OR WANT TO SAVE SOMEONE WHO IS SUCH A LIABILITY CUZ THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE THEIR BRAIN AT ALL!! ME AND JACK ALREADY LOST OUR LITTLE SISTER 'CUZ OF SOME KILLER WHO DECIDED TO SHOOT UP HER SCHOOL!!! I WILL MOST CERTAINLY NOT LOSE HIM BECAUSE OF YOUR OWN DAMN ARROGANCE!!!" he yelled before throwing her against the railing, shocking everyone at what he said and by his actions. But what caught everyone's attention was that he and Jack lost a sister to a killer. Nakala then drags Miko by her legs with his tentacles then pins her with all four holding her limbs so she's laying flat on the ground. He then puts a foot on her stomach hard and leans in close to her face again. "DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME!!!"

Miko was actually scared now, and was struggling to get free. "LEAVE ME ALONE!!" she yelled with tears about to form in her eyes. Jack had to step in and stop this, not wanting to see his brother like this anymore than he already did. "H-Hey! Nakala! Stop!" he yells grabbing his shoulder causing him to turn around and look up at his brother with that same glare. "She's had enough! Let her go!" he yells again with concern in his voice. Nakala continues glaring and growling for a second before his eyes widen in surprise as his mind makes him see something he's still unsure was real a few years ago. He sees his sister replacing Jack's position and saying the same nearly the same thing he did. "He's had enough big bro! Stop!" Nakala's eyes shook as he stared at his brother then looked back at Miko who was still scared. Nakala let his tentacles loose and stared at his hands after he stood up, letting his foot off Miko. His memories were playing with his eyes and mind, making him see that he was now in a different room with blood on his hands. He hears the voice of his little sister once again, saying "You're no monster, Nakala. Please don't be like them!"

Nakala shook his head and saw he was back in the missile silo and now put his hands on head in a bit of fear. He backed up a bit before getting in a crouching position with his heels off the floor and head facing down. Jack got lower with him and wrapped his arm around him. "Nakala, it's okay. You know I miss her too." Nakala shook his head before speaking. "I killed him...the bastard who killed her." Jack was taken back by this. "What?" "Those nightmares...after her death...were like past visions...showing what happened. The sound of her screams...[screams play in his head] even though I wasn't there to actually hear them. I wanted vengeance....I wanted him to die. [flashback of Nakala at the killer's base with goons on guard] I hunted him down. He was not alone... [flashback of Nakala killing them with his tentacles and staff] I showed no mercy to them... *sounds of their screams play in his mind* ...Killed them all quickly....But let him suffer... *memory of 12-year old Nakala smacking the killer with his tentacles*

...He didn't deserve a quick death...No no no no no [laughs a bit before another memory of him holding the killer down the same way he had Miko down and beating him to a bloody pulp]" Nakala begins to cry now. "Then I...heard her. *"Nakala!" she calls out* ...Felt her... *Nakala feels the hands of his sister Silvia on his shoulder "You're no monster!" she hugs him with tears in her eyes "Please don't be like them! It's not you! I love you." Nakala stopped and stared at the guy who's face was beaten in and bloody. Before anymore hesitation could take over, he let out a blade within the staff and stabbed his head with a determined yell.]" Nakala was no longer holding his head and was definitely crying now as he held his shoulders, completely ignoring the shocked eyes on him right now. "The pain...I felt...guilt and grief...scarred me deeply...*final flashback of Nakala screaming out all the pain he's feeling twice before crying in his knees while curled in ball before leaving the place* Nakala is out of memory lane and on his knees with one hand on the ground, the other over his crying face. Everyone was just staring in shock the entire time and feeling pity for Nakala, even Ratchet felt some of it. Jack has never heard this story before so hearing that he killed the guy who killed the sister was a big surprise. But hearing the story that was in few words, and seeing how his brother was being so emotional and hurt about it, he understands why he never told him.

"Nakala..." Jack tried to find words to say but couldn't. Nakala slowly turned to his brother and hugged him tightly, whispering loudly "I...don't want...to lose you...too. Care...too much...for those...close to me. Too...emotional. Help me..." his voice breaking in between words. Jack didn't say anything as he hugged back letting some tears fall as well. He looks up at Optimus and says, "Optimus, please send us home. We need to be alone right now. And we won't come back." Optimus simply nods in full understanding of their reason. "Ratchet, open a ground bridge for them." Ratchet simply nods as well and opens up the portal while Jack helps Nakala down the stairs. "It's okay Nakala. Focus on me." They stop when Jack looks up at Arcee who walked up to them a bit. "We know. You don't exist." "Don't make me hunt you down." Arcee was feeling the most pity for Nakala because she knows the feeling of wanting vengeance, but she had no choice but to kill because she was in a war while Nakala was just an innocent 12-year old. Right as they disappeared in the ground bridge, Ratchet felt it time to bring up something about Nakala. "There is one cybertronian that we know that has those same tentacles." Raf: "...Who?" Ratchet: "Soundwave: Megatron's communications chief and one of his most loyal follower. He was the first one that Megatron recruited before the war began."

Back on the warship, Starscream is trying to get Megatron to listen to what he was trying to do. "Please, Lord Megatron, I meant no -- OW!" Megatron doesn't like excuses at all, especially when it comes to defying his orders. "I ordered you to await my command!" he said before smacking Starscream in the face, which launches nearly halfway across the room. "Instead, your mindless agenda resulted in the disabling of my ship, and the delay of my plans!" Starscream starts backing away from Megatron while saying, "Ah! My intentions were pure, master. I only wanted you to be rid of Optimus. Ahh!" That only ticked off Megatron more because of his ego. "No one rids me of Optimus Prime but me! Do you understand? Do you?!" "[chokes] Lord Megatron, I will make things right. I swear! I know how to set your plans back on course!" Megatron took his foot off of Starscream and picked him up by the neck to bring him to his face. "Explain, Starscream, quickly.

We are now at the Darby's residence where Jack is working on his bike while Nakala is playing random classical guitar music on the couch while shirtless. But it was interrupted when headlights shined on them and turned off for them to see it was Bulkhead with Miko coming out. The moment she saw Nakala without his shirt, she blushed, but quickly shook it off. "Hey. Mind if we talk?" she asked. Jack: "Don't you have something more exciting to do, Miko?" Miko: "I just want to say I'm sorry and try to convince you two to come back." "After what you put us through?" "Jack, I saw what you did today. When you saved Raf, when you came to save me. And Nakala is really a cybertronian. I'm sure he would want to learn more stuff about his people." Nakala looks over at her with a look that says he wants to, but he doesn't want to at the same time. "Nakala and I have been raised to be responsible: To our schoolwork, our mom, our job." "Dude, hear me out. You guys aren't fry cooks. You're rock stars! Stop trying to pretend you're normal, you'll never fit in. You were born to do so much more." "Thanks Miko, but I think "normal" suits us fine." "What if I told you the 'bots know who Nakala's sire is?" This confused the two brothers. Jack: "His what?" "Sire. Cybertronian word for father...and carrier is for mother."

This definitely caught Nakala's attention as he sat up on the couch. "His name is Soundwave: Megatron's communications chief and most loyal follower." This took them both by surprise. "What?! Nakala's father is a Decepticon?!" "Yeah, me and Raf were just as shocked as you two. Only question is, if the Decepticons are so merciless and uncaring, how did Nakala get here? Maybe he saved him before Cybertron was destroyed." Both Jack and Miko look over at Nakala to see what his response was, and he looked like he was considering on going, but final decision was to stay. If his brother wasn't going, then neither was he. He laid back down on the couch and continued to play his guitar. "Ugh." Miko said as she walked back to Bulkhead and drove off with him. "Want to learn more, but your protection...is first priority." Nakala said softly to Jack.

Back at the Autobot base, Ratchet looked at the schematics Miko photographed and was surprised at what he found. "It can't be. Optimus!" Optimus walks to Ratchet and let's him continue. "These are engineering specs for a space-time vortex generator." Optimus: "Megatron's building a space bridge, if he hasn't already." Bulkhead: "The sooner he leaves, the better." Optimus: "Bulkhead, a space bridge runs in two directions. Megatron may not be using it to leave Earth -" Elita: "But to bring his undead army through, to us." Ratchet: "The main event Megatron referred to? But the only place Megatron could possible recruit that many fallen warriors..." Elita: "Cybertron."

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