*unknown POV*

I frown. So she's a Prime now. That's going to make my plans much more difficult. I turn to the skinny beanpole pipe that I had found and kept prisoner.

"Starscream", I hiss. "You have been able to survive for a long time. If you are not with Team Hope then where have you been STAYING?!"

I was losing my patience with him. I've had him for a week now and he hasn't given me anything. I've tried torturing him, but he just shrieks and eventually passes out. I keep him healed because I need him for something. He's such a weakling though.

"I'm not going to tell you, Arachnid!!", he snarls. I growl and transform, lifting one of my legs towards his face, he whimpers and shies away.

"Tell me and I will allow you to live", I hiss. He whimpers before finally giving in.

"The harbinger. It still functions, barely. I have managed to use the equipment there successfully", he whimpers.

I grin. "Wonderful." I start to undo his cuffs and when I get to the last one. I smirk and whisper in his audio receptor. "You shouldn't trust someone who haven't trusted in the past."

I stab his side and he gasps in pain.

"Now I let you bleed to death, slowly, painfully", I hiss. He gets up off the ground and I growl, stabbing his other side, making him fall yet again. This time he can't get up.

"You're a wimp, Starscream. It's a wonder you were ever Megatron's second in command", I hiss before transforming and flying off.

*Aura's POV*

"Aura, I am getting an embedded message... from Starscream", Ratchet catches my attention.

"What does it say?", I ask.

"I am injured. Help!", Ratchet says.

"Ratchet, Knockout, come with", I say, not even stopping to think.

"Aura, are you sure you want to help him?", Ratchet says.

"I will not let someone who needs help not get the help they need", I say before activating the ground bridge.

I walk through with Knockout and Ratchet. I see Starscream on the ground, in a puddle of energon. I gasp. "Ratchet. Knockout. Help him."

I didn't have to say it as they were already working on it.

He was passed out but I could tell he was severely injured.

An hour passes and they manage to get him stable. We pull him back through the ground bridge. We take him to Nemesis as they have better medical tools than Ratchet, however reluctant he is to admit it.

After another hour, he finally starts to wake up. I had Bulkhead and Bumblebee guarding the doors so if he tries to leave, he'll have to get through them first.

"Wha?", he says groggily. He tries to sit up but I push him back down.

"Be careful, Starscream. You have been severely injured", I say. Ratchet and Knockout had left a few minutes ago to get some energon.

"Who the frag are you?", he exclaims, not recognizing me.

"Who do I sound like?", I ask sarcastically.

"You sound like AuraStorm but you look nothing like her!!", he exclaims.

"Well, surprise, it is me. I'm known as Aura Prime now", I say.

He gasps. "A Prime? You're a Prime now?!" Them he notices his surroundings. "Why are you on the Decepticon warship?"

"Do you seriously not know what has happened since you left the Decepticons?", I ask.

He shakes his head.

I summarize for him. "The war between Megatron and Optimus is over. But now there is a new battle waging. One between Swarm and Hope. Between Arachnid and I. I was called to be the leader of Team Hope which has former Autobots and Decepticons. Just a week later, yesterday in fact, I was chosen to be a Prime."

He stares at me in shock. "I missed a lot."

I smile softly. "Yes you did."

Just then, Ratchet and Knockout came back. "Well, look who decided to wake up", Knockout says. I smile and look and Ratchet. He had two energon cubes. Knockout did as well. I'm guessing they grabbed one for Starscream, just in case he woke up.

Ratchet hands me one and I take a sip, feeling the energom replenish my systems.

Suddenly, Starscream looks scared. "I have to get back to the Harbinger..."

"Why?", was my immediate response.

"Arachnid is there. I left the Apex Armor there, hidden of course. I don't know if she'll find it or not", Starscream explains.

"Where is it on the Harbinger?", I ask.

"It's not on the Harbinger, it's at the very back, where it's buried in the rocks. I didn't put it inside the ship. It's buried in the rocks. I know exactly where", he says.

"Is he strong enough to show me where?", I turn to Ratchet and Knockout.

They nod. I help Starscream up.

"Okay, so we'll bridge further away. This is a stealth mission, we don't want to pick a fight", I say as we make our way to the bridge. I knew Soundwave was waiting there for us.

Starscream nods. We arrive at the bridge and Soundwave immediately opens a bridge. I go through it and see the Harbinger in the distance. Me and Starscream sneak forward and I frown.

"Something isn't right...", I whisper. I open a link to Ratchet.

"Ratchet, something isn't right here, I can feel it. Get the team ready to bridge to coordinates when I give the signal. Not before", I say.

Suddenly, I hear a buzzing above me. I see several insecticons flying with Airachnid in the middle.

"Now!", I shout. A bridge opens and the team files out and the fighting begins. Bugs land all around us. Airachnid lands in front of me. I see that the one leg I chopped off hadn't been fixed,

"Missing something?", I ask.

She growls and shoots some acid at me. I immediately transform into my Predacon form and blast a short burst of energy at it, evaporating it. Airachnid's face was filled with fear. I growl and attack her. She land on her back and I pin her down with one paw.

She hisses and attacks me with my legs, scratching at my armor. I release her and leap back before leaping over her, surprising her. I bit two of her legs and she shrieked loudly. She's now missing 3 of her 8 legs. 5 more to go and she won't be as powerful.

She frowns before an evil smirk came onto her face. She shrieks loudly and several insecticons came and attached to her. She transforms and becomes a big insect.

I realize that she used her Insecticons to even the playing field between us. I try to attack her but she blocks every attack I made.

I frown and leap back. I look around and see that all my teammates are being over run by Insecticons. I look around for Starscream and notice him using the Apex Armor. He must have recovered it while I was fighting Airachnid. I growl and transform. There was no way we were going to win this fight and we got what we came here for.

"Ratchet, open a ground bridge", I say into my com link. "I am calling a retreat."

I call to everyone that we are retreating and they all run through the open ground bridge. I look once more at Airachnid and she smiles at me while in her giant bug form. It was creepy.

Once I go through, I shudder and look at my team who was looking at me, even Starscream.

"Why did you call a retreat?", Arcee snarls.

"Because we were going to lose that battle one way or another. Every one of you were being over run with Insecticons. And... Airachnid is able to transform into a giant bug now, using some Insecticons", I say, looking down at the ground.

They make sounds of understanding and I smile. I look up to find them moving away. I look towards Starscream.

"Starscream, the Armor", I hold my servo out. He hands it over and I smile. "Would you like to join Team Hope?"

He thinks for a moment. "I would."

I shake his servo and hand the Apex Armor to Arcee. She leaves the room to go place it in the hallway with all of our relics. My team has gained two new members in a short amount of time. But even as we gain more members, Airachnid will grow stronger. It will be harder and harder to defeat her. But we must try otherwise she will rule both Cybertron and Earth.

*unknown POV*

She has accepted me into her team. Little does she know, I have fooled them all. Once I learn of the location of the base, Airachnid will be able to destroy them once and for all.