Bumblebee watched as the Decepticons argued amongst themselves, him and his team were surrounded with no way of escape and they had to come up with something fast before they were all killed. Bumblebee clenched his fist, "Get ready to fight."

"Let them take us prisoner so that--" Optimus begins but is soon interrupted.

"I didn't ask for alternative plans!" Bumblebee snaps back with irritation. Ever since Optimus' team returned and Optimus got back to his old self he's been trying to take over the team, much to Bumblebee's dismay, which is causing a rift between the two. The two are constantly arguing now and trying to prove who would be the better leader. The rest are getting fed up with it and just want the two to come to an agreement and get along like they had been.

"We don't have time for you to argue." Windblade intervenes, "So here's the new plan." She then transforms into her jet mode and flies around the room.

Steeljaw looks up and sees her and growls, "Shoot her down!"

The other Decepticons start shooting at Windblade and Ratchet looks to see an opening to a doorway. He decides to take this moment of distraction and orders the others to follow him to the door. But when they get within a foot of the doorway Steeljaw spots them, he could feel his Energon start to boil as anger started consuming him. He had come too far to let them get away and ruin his plans. 

Allowing his anger to guide his servos he raises the Decepticon Hunters to shoot, taking down a couple of Autobots with blasts to the back. A few of the Decepticons near the door stop firing and move to block the door and point their guns at the Autobots which stops them dead in their tracks giving Steeljaw a chance to shoot them in the back as well. The 'Cons then drag the Autobots back to the center of the room. 

A blast hits Windblade in her wing causing her to go hurtling towards the ground, she transforms before she makes impact and her small frame hits the metal floor hard enough to knock out her air circulation. The Decepticons all gather around them like wild animals getting ready to feast on their prey.

"Put them in the room with the stasis pods, and make sure the door is locked from the outside so they cannot open it and escape." Steeljaw orders. Overload, Groundpounder and a few others nod and pick up the Autobots to carry them out of the room, "And be sure to take their weapons." Steeljaw tells them as they head out of the room.

While this is going on Glowstrike sees a Decepticon Hunter on the ground that had fallen from one of the 'Bots when they fell after being hit by the blast from Steeljaw. She looks over to Steeljaw and sees his attention is completely on the Autobots, so she stealthily moves over to the Decepticon Hunter and picks it up. She activates it and points it to Steeljaw who then turns to look at her, "Now I have the upper hand."

Steeljaw smirks, he can't believe how naïve she is. Before Glowstrike could blink or even comprehend what was happening Steeljaw raises his Decepticon Hunters and shoots at her, knocking the weapon out of her servos and knocking her to the ground. His attention then went to Saberhorn who was getting ready to attack him, but before he could even take a step Steeljaw shot him, sending him to the ground right next to Glowstrike.

Steeljaw looks at them for a moment with a victorious grin then orders for them to be put into stasis pods. As the two were being carried out Thunderhoof walked over to Steeljaw, "'Eyo Steeljaw, why not put the 'Bots in stasis pods too?"

"How will I get information out of them if they are in stasis? Besides, it will give us a chance to have some fun with them and I for one would love to see Bumblebee suffer."

"Good, I wouldn' mind roughen up a few of 'em myself."

Not paying much attention to Thunderhoof Steeljaw picked up the Decepticon Hunter that Glowstrike had dropped and he walked out of the room. He decides to do some more research on the weapons to understand their powers a lot more so he heads towards the archives room. While he's walking through the corridors he thinks about the Autobots and what kind of tortures he could put them through, for one he would have to remove their T-Cogs so they can't transform. 

He could think of many ways to torture them all, Bumblebee especially, he wasn't lying when he said he would love to see Bumblebee suffer. That would be a big reward for him, and to torture Optimus Prime would be a big bonus. Maybe he would cut him up and sell his parts, surely he could get a lot of credits for the Prime since there are those who would love to get their servos on him. As for the rest, he could care less about what happened to them. They could be beaten and tortured to the point of death it doesn't matter to him...

Except for one.

The one he found himself wanting more than anything. The one that has been haunting his thoughts and dreams since their last encounter. The Cadet, Strongarm. After their last fight, after she kicked his aft and outsmarted him, he found himself thinking about her more and more. When he sleeps he dreams about her, every time he closes his optics he can see her face barely a foot from his face. Even her scent haunts him, always swirling around him no matter how hard he tries to take in other smells to get rid of hers, her scent just keeps sticking around smelling so sweet and delightful. Steeljaw stops walking and growls, with Strongarm now on the ship with him, so close to him, her scent is even stronger and it's driving him crazy. He wants to make her his, to own her body and spark. He wants her and now that she's within his reach nothing will stop him from taking her.

He shakes his helm and calms himself down, this is not the time. He has to think about that later, right now he has other things to do. Once he's more relaxed he continues walking towards the archives room.

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Bumblebee wakes up to a burning sensation and sharp pain in his back and his side. He lets out a groan as he opens his optics and gets them functioning. It takes him a moment but he eventually gets his optics focused and he can see where he is. He's in a brightly lit room with a set of monitors against a wall to his left and to his right is a table with different torture devices. As he looks over the devices he sees a T-Cog. Is it his? 

He looks down to his side where the T-Cogs are located and notices the cuts in his metal, surgical cuts. That's when he realized his T-Cog had in fact been removed, he also realizes he is strapped down to a berth. His processor goes into panic mode as he starts moving his arms to try and free himself from the restraints but the straps are on too tightly and his side and back are hurting too much.

He can't believe it, his T-Cog been removed again. He still remembers the time when M.E.C.H had removed his T-Cog and he couldn't do anything, couldn't go into v-mode, couldn't access his weapons, nothing. He was helpless and felt like a burden to the team. It upset him so much that he couldn't transform into v-mode and drive around like he used to could, to drive as fast as he was allowed to and feel his engines rev. It was as if a part of him was ripped away. He was so relieved when he finally got his T-Cog back and was able to transform and drive once more. But now his T-Cog had been taken again. But for what purpose? What would the Decepticons need his T-Cog for?

He laid his helm on the berth and looked up at the ceiling as he tried to process all that happened. They had invaded Decepticon Island in hopes to capture them all and lock them up before they could do any more damage. But Steeljaw had somehow gotten two Decepticon Hunters and took over the Island for himself and he somehow managed to be a step ahead. Bumblebee recalled how him and his team tried to escape but failed, shot in the backs. He's not sure if it was Steeljaw that shot them or the other Decepticons, but either way, their escape was a fail and now they're at the mercy of Steeljaw and his pack. Bumblebee wondered where his team was and how they were fairing. Hopefully, they're alright. But let's face it, they're all at the mercy of the Decepticons, none of them will be alright until they can somehow escape.

Bumblebee is pulled from his thoughts at the sound of the door opening. He looks and sees Steeljaw walking in with Thunderhoof, Overload, and Groundpounder trailing behind him. He looks Steeljaw over and notices the shiny blue armor over different parts of his body, he had put the Decepticon Hunters together and gained their power. But how did he know about that? Bumblebee then notices the canister in his servo, Scrap!

"Bumblebee, so nice to see you awake." Steeljaw says as he walks over to the berth, "Like my new look?"

"It's interesting. How did you-?"

"Did you really think I wouldn't find out about this secret of the weapons? I got curious about what all they could do so I went to the archives room that's on the ship and searched it up. Once I found out that putting the weapons together could give you an armor that is impenetrable and help you become powerful well I just had to test it out, just imagine how ecstatic I was when I tried it and found out it was all true. Then to top it off I can make it turn into whatever weapon I desire, that was a major plus."

Bumblebee glared at him, "Ok so you know about all that. What do you want from me?"

Steeljaw raised the canister in his servo, "I want you to tell me what is in this canister. What exactly were you hoping to accomplish here?"

"I'm not telling you anything!" Bumblebee snarled. There was nothing they could do to make him talk, he had been through all the tactics during the war so nothing they do will phase him.

"Don't make this hard on yourself Bumblebee, we already removed your T-Cog don't make us do anything further. Though if I were to be honest I really hope you would, I would really enjoy making you suffer."

"Of course you would Steeljaw. But speaking of my T-Cog, why did you remove it?"

"Are you really that stupid Bumblebee? To keep you from transforming. If you can't transform the less chance you and your team have of escaping."

"Why are you keeping us around? Why don't you just kill us?"

"Where would the fun be in that? The longer you stay alive the more we can torture you." Steeljaw then looks over at Overload and gives a nod. Overload then walks over to the table where the torture devices are and look them over, deciding which device to use.

Steeljaw looks back at Bumblebee, "Now, are you going to tell me what's in this canister or do we have to pry it from you?"

"You'll have to pry it from me." Bumblebee replies as he shoots a deadly glare at Steeljaw.

"Very well. Overload."

Overload picks up one of the torture devices that looks like a big pair of pliers, it has two long rods that go into each of his servos and has a really sharp tip. It has wires wrapping around it that leads to a small box that has a power switch to turn on the electricity it holds. Bumblebee looks over the device and feels a twinge of fear when Overload presses the power switch to turn on the electrical circuit. He quickly pushes the fear to the side and readies himself for whatever they're about to do.

Overload stabs Bumblebee in the arm on the joint area, burying the sharp points into his metal as a wave of electricity shoots into his metal and course through him. Bumblebee grits his dentures as he tries to keep himself from crying out as he feels the sharp end digging into his metal and the electrical wave hitting him. He then feels it cutting away the metal at the joint and revealing the wires and cables underneath, then there was another wave of electricity right into his wiring as there was a snip. He couldn't hold it back any longer and he let out a scream. His circuitry started to feel like they were on fire as the electricity shot through his entire body, warning signals started popping up as his core temperature started to rise.

Steeljaw felt joy at hearing Bumblebee screaming in pain, "Are you ready to talk now?"

Overload pulled back to give Bumblebee a chance to speak up. Bumblebee tried to scowl at Steeljaw but found it difficult as pain consumed him, "N-no... I'll n-never... t-tell you."

"Have it your way." Steeljaw then nodded towards Overload giving him the go-ahead to proceed and Overload stabbed the device back into 'Bee's arm snipping and sending more electricity into his body. Bumblebee knew that by the end of this his arm wouldn't be functioning anymore. But he won't give in, he'll never give in.