When Arcee enters Megatron's mind she finds herself in a place like Kaon, which is not too much of a surprise. She follows a pathway that leads to some stairs, she climbs the stairs to the top where she finds Optimus. Arcee was surprised but she knew it wasn't the real Optimus, it was just a figment of Megatron's mind. She starts walking towards it but then freezes up when she hears Megatron laugh.

:: Are you sure you can do this, Arcee? :: Ratchet asked.

"Yeah," Arcee responds in a low tone. A shiver runs through her body as her spark's pulse quickens when Megatron appears.

"Optimus Prime, your Autobot armies are defeated. Now bow to your new master."

"Never, Megatron," Optimus says as he turns to face Megatron, "One shall stand..." Optimus transforms his servo into his blade, "...one shall fall."

"So be it," Megatron says before bringing out his blade and jumping down from the cliff he was standing on. He runs at Optimus who is running at him and he slices him across his abdomen area, Optimus starts fading away to dust while Megatron is left standing.

Arcee peeks out from behind the rock she's hiding behind and she sees Megatron looking around, "I feel a familiar presence that I haven't felt in a long time."

At that moment, the rock in front of Arcee starts taking shape into Optimus who went after Megatron. Megatron just looked at him before raising his blaster and shooting at him, he disappeared as the other one did. Megatron looks at Arcee who is now standing out in the open, "I knew I felt a familiar presence. It's been a long time, Arcee," he says as he walks closer to her. "You're still as beautiful as ever."

XXXXXX

"Come on, Megatronus, move it! I hear some hot femmes are dancing at the club tonight! I don't want to miss it!"

Megatronus shakes his helm at his gladiator friend as he and a few of the others drag him to a club. They want to celebrate their victory by going to the club to drink High-Grade Energon and watch some femmes dance. Megatronus really doesn't want to go because the club scene really isn't his thing but his friends decided to drag him along because 'he needs to get out and have fun instead of training all the time'.

"Maybe you'll find a femme that will catch your attention."

Megatronus rolls his optics, "I highly doubt that."

His friends just laugh as they go into the club. They find a table, sit down, order some High-Grade Energon, and start drinking and having fun while they wait for the show to start. When it was time for the show to start they all watched as the femmes took their positions on stage, when the femmes started dancing all the mechs started going crazy. 

Megatronus rolled his optics at his friends' behaviors as he took a sip of his High-Grade before looking up at the stage to watch the show, might as well since he was here, and that's when he saw her. The femme with blue armor and pink highlights around her face and on her wrists, the most beautiful femme he's ever seen. He puts his High-Grade down as he watches her, the way she moves in such a sexual way is just so mesmerizing. 

The other gladiators look at their friend and see him staring at the one femme and they start laughing, "The mech who said that he wouldn't find a femme that could catch his attention." They start teasing him but he ignores them as he stays focused on the femme. He needs to meet her, he needs to know who she is.

When the show is over the femme leaves the stage in a hurry with a few of the other femmes while the rest stay out to flirt with the mechs. Megatronus gets up from the table and tries to find a way to get behind the stage so he can talk to her when an old mech comes up to him. "Gladiator Megatronus, it's so great to meet you. I'm Holo, I've been a fan of yours for a long time."

"Nice to meet you," Megatronus says trying to be polite, "Would you know how I can get backstage? I want to meet a certain femme."

"Yes, those are my femmes. My sparkmate and I gather femmes together to create a dance group and we go around performing wherever we can. Would you like to buy one of the femmes?"

Megatronus raises an optic ridge, "Buy? You sell the femmes?"

"Yes. We take them off the streets and give them a home and Energon, then we sell them to any bot that wants to buy them. Any femme you want to buy?"

There's something about this mech that doesn't seem right. There's something off about his story. I should see if he has a right to be selling femmes like this, but if he is a bad mech then I should see about buying that femme to get her away from him. "Yes, I would like to buy one of your femmes."

"Great! Follow me!" He says as he heads backstage.

"Megatronus, are you sure about this?" One of his friends asks him in a hushed tone.

"There's something off about this mech, if he's dangerous I need to get this femme away from him," Megatronus responds as he starts to follow the old mech.

"Sweetspark, this mech wants to buy one of the femmes," Holo says to his sparkmate when he finds her.

"Great! Right this way!" They take Megatronus and the other gladiators behind the stage where some of the femmes are getting ready to head out.

"The gladiator Megatronus wishes to buy one of you," Holo announces as Megatronus looks over the femmes to find the blue femme that he wants. He spots her in the back trying to sneak away.

"Where do you think you're sneaking off to?" He asks as he maneuvers around the other femmes to get to her, no way was he gonna let her slip by him. He watches her as she turns to look at him and he almost gets lost in her optics, "What's your name?"

She stays silent as she keeps staring at him with uncertainty. Megatronus had to restrain himself from growling at the old mech when he spoke up again, "With all due respect, Megatronus, you don't want to take this one."

Why the pit not!? She's the one I choose and I will have her!

"She's really disobedient and she's a fighter, you would have a really hard time getting her to do as you say."

That just made Megatronus excited and want her even more. He chuckles, "She sounds very interesting and quite challenging. How much do you want for her?"

"The kind of femme she is I would have to say, ten thousand creds."

She's that bad? Should be very interesting then. "It's a deal," he says before he gets onto his datapad to send him the credits.

"Her name is Arcee and she's yours. Was a pleasure doing business with you," the old mech said before quickly walking off.

"Arcee..." He takes her servo and bends over to kiss it. She's mine and she always will be. He looks back up at her, "It's a pleasure to meet you, my little dancer," he says as his friends walk over to them.

"I can't believe you just bought a femme. But good optic, she's beautiful."

Megatronus glares at his friend as he continues to hold Arcee's servo, "Don't try anything," he says before he starts walking off with Arcee.

XXXXXX

"Forgive me for this, Arcee. I must see something," Megatron says before he pokes the point of his blade into her abdomen. He watches as it goes through her, "Just as I thought..."

"Megatron."

Megatron and Arcee look to see Optimus, Bulkhead, and Bumblebee walking towards them before stopping. Megatron yells out before he starts shooting at them and they disappear like the others. "You are real, they were not," he says as he looks at Arcee again. "I thought you might be, I haven't seen you or felt you in any dreams or anything in so long. I missed being near you, my little dancer. But, if this is my subconscious. Then why are you inside my head?" He starts walking around as he tries to think, "The only way you can enter my head is via Cortical Psychic Patch. But the question still remains, what happened to me?"

"The Space Bridge exploded and you were caught in it. I felt the disconnection in our bond and I seriously thought you were dead, it almost killed me. But then I felt the faint bit of life you were clinging onto..."

For the first time in years, Megatron felt his spark begin to break as he heard the pain in his mate's voice. He so desperately wants to hug her right now and reassure her everything is okay, but she decided to be on the opposite team and became his enemy. For now, at least, he will see about changing that. "Since you are in my head it means I am not one with the AllSpark. So tell me, do I still function?"

"In a way, yes," Arcee responds before pausing as she listens to Ratchet. "Megatron, listen, I need the antidote for the Cybonic Plague. Do you know it?"

"Cybonic Plague? Someone besides myself is unwell?" Arcee just nods and Megatron can put together who it is, "Optimus." He starts laughing at the irony of it, "Such irony! That after ages of endless battle, the mighty Optimus Prime is fell by a simple virus from distant past." Arcee can't help but glare at him as he continues, "And what makes you think that I would save the life of my oldest enemy?"

"Think about it, Megatron, after all these years of fighting and trying to take down Optimus. Do you really want him to fall by a virus instead of your own servos? Help him survive and when you finally wake you can have a rematch with him and try to destroy him yourself."

Megatron stares at her as he thinks it over and an idea pops into his head, "Your reasoning was very good, quite convincing. Let's make a deal, if I give you the antidote you must agree to help me wake up and be by my side as you should be. Deal?" Megatron finishes speaking as he puts out his servo for a shake to complete the deal and Arcee looks at it as the choices roll around in her processor.