Bumblebee, Arcee, Thunderhoof, and Fowler look at the humans surrounding them with guns fixated on them. Each of them trying to figure out how they're gonna get out of this. Before they could come up with a plan they heard heavy-footed steps running toward their location.

"Honey, I'm home!" Wheeljack shouts as he comes running in and starts slashing at the human soldiers. Of course, Autobots aren't supposed to kill humans but as Bulkhead said before, they will make an exception for these humans.

Chaos ensued as the humans started shooting at them but all the bots managed to dodge the shots and throw in blows at the humans either killing or injuring them. It doesn't take them long to take care of the soldiers, a lot of them were apparently under-trained for this kind of situation. Only the leader, Brendon, was left standing.

Wheeljack placed the blade of one of his katanas at Brendon's throat but he seemed to be unfazed by it, just staring at the mech with a blank expression, "Where's Strongarm?" Wheeljack asked.

"As I just told the others not long ago, she's no longer here. She escaped with the male wolf."

"You better not be lying!" Wheeljack says in agitation.

"I don't think he is," Arcee says as she walks over to them. She pulls back Brendon's shirt, "He was recently injured, looks like claw marks."

Brendon growled as he moved away from her, "It is claw marks! That damn Cybertronian mutt hit me with his claws as they were escaping!" Brendon can feel his hatred for these beings growing even more intense. They've ruined his life at every turn and he has so much hatred for them that he would be more than happy to see their demise. He would be even happier to be the cause of their demise.

As they talk, Bumblebee and Thunderhoof remove the straps from Grimlock and Underbite and look at the damage that was done, "Primus, they really did a number on you both. I need to call Ratchet," Bumblebee says before he gets on his comm.

:: Ratchet, come in. ::

:: I'm here, Bumblebee. Did you find Strongarm and Grimlock? ::

:: We found Grimlock but no sign of Strongarm, seems she escaped already with Steeljaw. But Grimlock is in bad shape, I need you to come out here to give aid. ::

Ratchet looks at Knock Out who just waves him off, "Go, we'll be fine."

:: I'm on my way. :: Ratchet says before cutting off the comm.

"Ratchet's on his way, he'll fix up the both of you," Bumblebee says with a smile, mostly towards Grimlock.

Fowler walks up to the platform where Brendon is standing as he gets off the phone, "I just talked to my superiors, they're sending out MPs to arrest Brendon." Fowler looks at Brendon with a hardened glare, "You'll be going away for a long time."

Brendon sneered at him, "Why don't you just have these bastards kill me like they did my uncle and all my soldiers?"

"Your uncle caused his own demise, messing with beings far more powerful than him. He took out his own team who respected and supported him and tried to team up with the Decepticons who respect no humans, which ended up being the death of him. As for your soldiers, they shouldn't have followed you and gone against these guys. The Autobots make it a goal not to hurt any humans but when you threaten them or their loved ones they will defend themselves and their loved ones."

Brendon turned around to face his computers as he thought over what Fowler said. His uncle was very sadistic, nobody knew that better than he. He even killed his own men just to join the same beings he was experimenting on. He tried to help the same beings that wanted to destroy this planet, which included killing him as well. His own uncle would have killed him to get ahead, and here he is trying to get revenge for that asshole. He has nothing left.

He has nobody, his family is gone, and his soldiers are gone. He's left to face these damn beings by himself. But he has no right to keep seeking revenge for the man who never loved him and would have killed him in an instant. It's for the best that he gets put away. He lets out a sigh and sits down to wait for the MPs.

Fowler watched him closely as he wondered what he was up to. Surely he's not surrendering without a fight, "You better not be planning anything," Fowler says sternly. Brendon says nothing, he just sits there.

"Bumblebee, you're gonna want to see this," Bulkhead says as he walks back to their area. He, Magnus, and Smokescreen decided to explore the place to see what they could find.

"Fowler, watch him," Bumblebee says before he goes to follow Bulkhead.

"Will do."

Bumblebee and the others follow Bulkhead to a huge room where they're shocked to see what they found, "A Ground Bridge? What is a Ground Bridge doing here?" Bumblebee asked.

"Not sure, but it seems it was recently used," Smokescreen says as he checks out the controls.

"It might be how Strongarm and Steeljaw escaped here. But it looks like it's been damaged," Magnus adds.

"So we just need to fix it and see where they bridged to and bridge them back," Arcee says with hope in her voice.

"Exactly, and we have Ratchet who knows all about fixing up Ground Bridges!" Bulkhead pipes in excitedly.

Wheeljack picks up Arcee and hugs her, "We're gonna finally get our daughter back!" Arcee just laughs and hugs him back.

"Has either of you tried contacting her?" Smokescreen asked.

Arcee and Wheeljack looked at each other, both disappointed they didn't think of that, "Should we give it a try?" Wheeljack asked.

"If she's open to us again," Arcee responded.

"What do you mean? She's your daughter, you all should share that connection," Bumblebee asked in confusion.

"Well, she kind of cut off that connection because we were bugging her too much after she joined the police academy. We just wanted to see how she was doing but we did it too much I guess and she started closing it, only opening it back up every so often when she wants to talk to us."

"Well, seeing that she's in trouble she might have it open now," Bumblebee stated, "Give it a try."

Arcee nods as nervousness sets in. Hopefully, it works. Strongarm, come in.

~~~~~~~~~~

"Did you not have a mech to relieve you of your heat cycle when you first got it?" Steeljaw asked Strongarm who was looking up at the stars. The pair had decided to sit on the cliff and stargaze.

"No..." Strongarm responded as she kept looking at the stars, "I had a boyfriend but I found him cheating on me so I broke up with him. Not long after, my first heat cycle came and I was stuck going through it alone." She shouldn't have told him that, it was personal information. But she figures since they're going to be giving it a try she may as well be honest with him...

She really shouldn't have told him.

Steeljaw was enraged, a mech treated his femme so poorly and hurt her... He growls as he thinks about it, this mech better pray they never cross paths or he's gonna kill him, "So, he cheated on you leaving you to get through your heat cycle alone?"

Strongarm looks over to him in shock that he's becoming so angry over it, "Yes. But that's in the past. I haven't spoken to him or seen him since. It wasn't a good relationship anyway, he didn't really care about me only my body."

Steeljaw growls as he stands up to walk around, "He better hope and pray I don't find him, I'll kill him."

Strongarm turns to watch him pace, still surprised that he's so upset about this, "Steeljaw, will you calm down? Like I said it's in the past."

Steeljaw looks at her, "How many more exes do you have?"

Strongarm stands up and carefully moves towards him, "Just him. After I broke up with him I decided to focus on the police academy and not worry about relationships. No mech has been legitimately into me anyway." 

When she gets close enough she reaches for his servo, it's a bad idea she knows, you should never try to touch a Wolf-Con when he's angry. But if she's really going to give him a chance she needs to start with putting at least a little trust in him. She touches his servo and he doesn't react, "Why are you so upset about this?"

Steeljaw grabs her servo and pulls her towards him as he places his other servo on the back of her neck. He holds her close to him as her spark pulses faster than ever with fear and panic starting to settle in, maybe she shouldn't have tried this after all, "Because you're my femme!" He snarls out with a hint of possessiveness in his tone, "No mech hurts my femme unless they have a death wish!"

She places a servo on his chest meaning to push back, every bit of her wanting to shout at him that she's not his femme, but deep down she knows she is. He's marked her and they mated through interface, so technically she is his femme, and always fighting against it and denying it isn't gonna change that fact. She's even a bit flattered by his remark. There has to be something wrong with her, he must have done something to her.

But there's still one thing she needs to know, "Wha-?"

Strongarm, come in. Please.

Mom?