In the Nemesis Megatron and FallStar wherein one chamber which looked a bit like a meeting room. Soundwave was there because he was one of the trusted ones for both of them.

"Tell me more about this 'Inside pain'," Megatron asked.

"Well, like the title itself told it so, It's pain that comes from inside. It doesn't usually need any weapons, just simple act and it could cause so much pain that opponent can't even stand."

"You sound like you have seen this reaction," Megatron said.

"And felt it," said FallStar. "My first encounter was when I killed one called Elita-1."

"Optimus' former femme."

"Yes," she said. "At first I just wanted to blow my anger into someone and she just happened to be the closest one, so I pierce her. But that's when I saw what it caused. I felt my sisters pain, while she yelled. And that face on Primes optics. I don't know how, but I could actually see how shocked he was, I could actually see his pain when I killed his girl."

"I would have loved to see it," Megatron said.

"But then the few days, my body felt so heavy. I used my Star connection to find the reason. It turns out my sister, PeaceStar had only been laying down, look straight ahead, doing absolutely nothing. And what came to Prime...You're not going to believe this, I actually saw him cry."

"Optimus?"

"Trust me I couldn't believe it myself. That's when it hit me. If I can hurt them from inside, it may cause so much pain that it could actually weaken them. And so, they will be easy to crash."

"In one point I think your plan is pure evil and sinister," Megatron said. "But I don't think we have time find their all weak spots."

"Who says we need to all their weak spot?" she said with an evil smirk on her face. "I was thinking on the few of them. Or at least one of them."

"Which is?"

"Let's just say if that someone is too busy, he won't be protecting The Star girl and who knows he may even crash from inside during that time."

"The team may suffer more. That someone wouldn't be..."

"Yes..." she purred. "Once I learn the weak spot of the Prime, I tell it to you and you can use on him, while I get rid of Daughter of his. And who knows if everything goes well, we may even hit two in one strike."

"And team stays without their great leader. My dear, that's the evilest plan I have ever heard," Megatron said.

"You're flattering me."

"But there's one 'but' in your plan," he said.

"Oh? which one?" she asked innocently.

"How you expect to find his weak spot. He is Prime."

"Please, Prime is just a title," she said. "Even if he has all the knowledge of the Primes, that doesn't change that he is just one other 'bot. And what comes to his weak spot, I'm sure can pick it out from someone."

"By who?"

"By her daughter."

In the middle of the night in Jasper, Elena screams in her sleep before she gets up from her bed and starts sweat and breathe heavily. Usually, the yell could be heard from the command center, but now in the new base, they had sound proved hangars, so only ones who heard her was Optimus and Arcee.

Once they heard Elena screaming, they woke up and get up from their berth to check her.

"Elena, are you alright?" Arcee asked.

At first, Elena didn't answer, because she was trying to calm herself. Knowing this, Arcee picked her up into her arms and took her to Optimus. He lifts Elena's chin, so she could look at him.

"Was it a nightmare?" he asked. Elena nodded for this. Optimus was about to ask what it was, but he could tell by her look that it was a very bad nightmare, that makes you silent. Optimus decided not to push, if not wait when she was ready to tell. It didn't take much before Elena has fallen to sleep again, but now was resting on Optimus' and Arcee's berth.

"She looks like Sparkling," Arcee said while looked at Elena. Well, considering her size it felt like she was sparkling. Arcee couldn't help but smile at that thought. But when she looked at Optimus, smiled faded away. By the look on his face told he was now worried. "You're worried about her nightmare, aren't you."

"Last time when she had such nightmare, was when we discovered Dark energon and that Megatron had brought it here," Optimus said. "I wouldn't be surprised if this has anything to do with FallStar and whatever she is planning with Megatron."

"What should do then?" Arcee asked.

"We just need to be alert unless Elena tells what she saw. Although knowing her, this won't just be about her if not about all of us," he said.

"She is always concern about us, then herself. I guess that's one reason she is chosen as Star Supreme," Arcee said, while smiled again.

"That and more," Optimus said and moved his arm around her. They both just stood like that for awhile, enjoying the closeness of each other, before they returned back to rest.

In the morning, everyone was in the base (Unit 'E'). that also included their human friends, Kids, Agent Fowler and June. Since everyone has become aware FallStar had come it would be best for now stay safe because they so far knew about her, you could call her like a mini and female version of Megatron. Heck, she should be called as Megatron's daughter, like Elena was Optimus's. But there were things they didn't know. Is she aware of Predacons of the elements? What will she actually do to them? To be honest, she hadn't been seen since, Stars hide the Star Tower, so it was hard to say what will be her next move.

Sadly, Elena hadn't told about her nightmare yet and Optimus and Arcee hadn't mentioned it either. And what came to the Decepticon activity it has been a bit quiet, as in Megatron either has become very careful of his movements or they all were preparing for the great movement. That even included the remains of Predacons. Speaking of it, the one remaining, which WheelJack and Arcee got, turn to be one Predacon that looked like Griffin, but by it's CNA its element wasn't wind like it should be if not fire, which tells that FallStar had given much of her CNA to Shockwave then others. Okay, so maybe she still holds some respect on to her siblings, considering how she even reacted when two of her sibling got killed by accident. But this leaves one thing left to do, Elena must find the last four Predacons of elements.

"Which one they were again?" Miko asked.

"Lava, electricity, Earth, and Fire," BurnStar said. "And since I'm Star of Lava, you can already guess which Predacon that would be."

"The Phoenix," Jack said.

"So, would that be in Egypt?" Raf asked.

"Normally," Elena said. "But since we're talking about Predacon of lava, it must be on one of the volcanos we have. It probably stood in Egypt at first, but after that, it's hard to tell..."

"Well, how many volcanos do you have here?" Smokescreen asked.

"A lot." said agent Fowler. "But some of them are active. It could take long before we found the right one."

"Not exactly," Elena said. "Raf, look the closest volcano near Egypt." Raf did so, scanning all the volcanoes before clearing them all leaving two possible choices; Etna and Vesuvius.

"Umm... you don't really think that it would be in..." Miko asked.

"The Vesuvius?" Jack finished.

"What's so special about that?" BurnStar asked.

"It once exploded, destroying one known city called Pompeii," Elena said. "The historical, who saw it, describe it that even sky went dark by its smoke. Many people lost their lives that time."

"You think the Predacon caused it?" Raf asked.

"Probably not on purpose," Elena said. "BurnStar, what you think?"

"Well, by how you describe it, it sounds more like, it was woken middle of its sleep, that made it all cranky and all," BurnStar said. "I usually have that." after saying that, the humans who were near her, went a bit far from her, fearing that if she might explode too.

"Then you don't mind to go get it?" Elena asked.

"I don't see no...wait? WHAT?!" BurnStar asked. "You want me to go into your volcano, that killed the entire city?"

"It's your element. How hard it can be?" Jack asked.

"It is! It totally different when I'm the Star of lava, but Predacon is totally a different thing," BurnStar said. "Why can't you go, Elena."

"Well, last time when wreckers found Water Predacon it was easy."

"Easy, because it was PeaceStar," Bulkhead said.

"Look. If BurnStar goes get the lava, I can go for other one and quicker we get the Predacons of elements, the better."

"You don't think FallStar is aware of them?" June asked.

"Could be," Elena said looking down and moved her hand to her head. Mentioning FallStar brought up her nightmare into
her mind. But also something else she wasn't sure about. But then she looks all of them. "But if she knew or not, the two of the last elements are hers and that will may get difficult if she is up to something."

"So, we need to find these two others to have upper hand on her," Ratchet said.

"Yes."

"Okay, fine I'll go," BurnStar said. "But I don't want to go alone."

"I believe it's the best choice," Optimus said. "We spilled into two groups to make sure the Stars get the element."

"And that means humans stay here for support," Elena said.

"Aw!" Miko said. It was obvious Elena meant to say it before she will think anything.

Meanwhile, in Warship Nemesis, FallStar was going over something. It looked like fire orb with different colors. Every time she moves one of the flames out of the orb, it became another orb. By how all looks she was looking something from the orb. While doing so, Megatron came into the room.

"How is it going?" he asked.

"I'm about to get close," she said while taking another flame off from the main one. Megatron looked on the orbs that she had got off from the main orb. If you look closely each orb holds memories of Elena and by one bot or human.

"Didn't know you Stars can do this kind of 'digging'," he said.

"Only for medical reasons," FallStar said. "But the thing is, this isn't just her memories. I had to break into private section as well." Megatron what she meant by that.

Usually, Stars are allowed by their Star connection to see what is wrong or what had happened to others, but when it came to the private section, they never entered there. The private section was where Stars hold their personal secrets, dreams or someone else's who they have sworn to keep. But now FallStar had broken that rule and had entered into Elena's private section. She did so, while she was sleeping. She used the Star connection to get in her mind, but at the same time she went to her private section and took it with her. It will be a matter of time before Elena come aware of it because it will feel like someone has actually taken a piece of your head. So, FallStar had been working on it ever since she got it.

"Just a little bit more..." she said, while was removing another flame from the main one, which will all the private memories of Elena and Optimus. But when she tried to take the flame off it didn't let go. she tried many times again but didn't. As if it holds some part of the main one.

"What you got?" Megatron asked.

"That I like to know myself," FallStar said, while letting go of the flame and tried to pay all her attention to what was now in the main ord. Mostly there were sweet memories of Elena and Optimus and their father and daughter moments or dreams how she had the wish to be more with her father. But then there was more where the other kind of colored flame shows up. Seeing this what it holds inside, made FallStar's optics wide.

"No way..." she said.

"What is it?" Megatron asked bit annoyed. But there was no answer if not just that FallStar started to laugh. It was one those mocking kind of laugh. "Are you going to tell me or Do I have to use the psychic patch?"

"I'm sorry," she said while was calming down. "I just expected to find something against him, but this is more than I expected. They're making this too easy."

"Which is?" Megatron asked. Well, he would have been more annoyed, but by how she explained it, it was something too good to just tell, that it actually needs to be shown.

FallStar now removed one of the flames of the main orb that now get off from it and turning into a passionate red orb and gave it to Megatron. Megatron looked the orb closely to see what it held inside. Soo, seeing it while he evil smirk grows wide and looked on FallStar.

"You're right, my dear. They're making this too easy. And it gives me many ideas to handle it."

"I actually had thought about it already," FallStar said. "Just let me handle the start and rest is all yours," she said while smiling an evil smile.

Then somewhere near to Volcano Vesuvius, Groundbridge appeared and there came out Arcee, Bumblebee, and Smokescreen along with BurnStar.

"Okay, let's handle this quickly," BurnStar said.

"I still can believe you pick 'that' to seal it," Smokescreen said meaning the fan on BurnStar's hands.

"What? I like it," she said. "Plus, we do want it fell comfortable."

"Let's go then," Arcee said, while they keep going to the top of the volcano.

While walking Smokescreen talk with Bumblebee.

"You know, speaking of Arcee, you think she and Optimus..." he said.

"(What?)" Bumblebee. asked

"You know..." Smokescreen said.

"(Yes. So? Didn't you know?)"

"Me? Well, honestly I had suspicion and all that. I just want to know are they... a couple?"

"(Yes, they are.)"

"I knew it!" Smokescreen Yelled.

"Knew what?" Arcee asked annoyedly.

"Nothing. Nothing special," Smokescreen said. Girls looked at each other before they keep going before boys followed still talking. "How long they had been like that?"

"(I don't know. I don't know what they had been doing to become a couple. When I asked that from Ratchet... I don't want talk about it)"

"Why?"

"(Would you stop asking that about it.)" beeped Bumblebee blushing. "(I don't know all about them. I just know it makes Elena happier, Optimus is happy and she is happy, everyone is happy)"

"Okay..."

"Guys, we're here."

Somewhere else in desert Ultra Magnus' ship landed, where Elena Optimus and Ultra Magnus came out. It was decided if something comes up, Bulkhead and WheelJack would come handle it.

"What are we looking here?" Ultra Magnus asked.

"A cording to weather news, there should be thunderstorm here. That should at least got Thunderlion's attention."

"Thunderlion?" Optimus asked.

"The Predacon of electricity," Elena said. "And I have proper item for it," she said and pick out an umbrella. What special about umbrella was that it had metal pieces, but also rubber, so she won't get shocked by thunder.

"What now then?" Ultra Magnus asked.

"We wait," Elena said.

Meanwhile, on Vesuvius, BurnStar, Arcee, Bumblebee, and Smokescreen had got into the volcano. Luckily there's some froze lava under them so they could walk inside the volcano.

"How we find it?" Smokescreen. asked

"I had no idea," BurnStar said. "I'm not sure where it is actually here."

"Well, it explode once a long time ago, I'm surprised if it's still sleeping ever since," Arcee said.

"Hey, you want it to wake up and cover another city into the lava?" BurnStar said. Right, then they strange sound.

"(What was that?)" Bumblebee asked.

"I'm not sure, but that sounds like... waking bird," BurnStar said, while look forward. Front of them the melted stones started to break while a bit of lava came out, while something came out from there like a mole from the ground. It was the Phoenix, Predacon of lava.

Meanwhile, Elena, Optimus, and Ultra Magnus were waiting to storm to come. But at this point, Optimus had notice something to troubling Elena. She has often placed her hand on her head like something is up.

"Elena, is something wrong?" he asked.

"I'm fine," she said.

"If it's because of the nightmare."

"It's not," she said. "At least I don't think it has to do with it."

"What nightmare?" Ultra Magnus asked.

"Elena had a nightmare last night and I have feeling it's was warning about what may come."

"What?" Elena asked. "Since I had such a..." then she remembered how it was when she had a nightmare of dark energon. "You don't think..."

"That is your decision to make, my child," Optimus said. In this Elena nodded and keep looking.

"Sir?" Ultra Magnus asked. "Does team knows about this nightmare?"

"No," said Optimus. "Only I and Arcee, since we were there when she had it."

"Speaking of her, sir. Is there something going on between you two?" Ultra Magnus asked.

Optimus looked on his second in command. He wanted, to be honest with him, but he knew he may not take it well. After all, they were still at war and he might think it's unwise to have a relationship in the middle of battle. But this has already happened. He loved Arcee and she loved him. Denying it is like denying himself. In this Optimus was ready to give a straight answer, before lighting strike near.

"Get ready!" Elena yelled.

Meanwhile, in Vesuvius, BurnStar tried to approach the Phoenix gently, while others stood behind. By the experience in the Arctic, The Predacons may not like them.

"Easy..." BurnStar said to herself. The Phoenix looked curiously at her. It was hard to say what it was thinking. Does it know who BurnStar is or is it seeing her as a snack? Hopefully not the last one. But then it looked like getting interested in Autobots. It moves at them to take a closer look at them.

"You don't think it's going to..." Smokescreen asked. Neither Bumblebee and Arcee couldn't answer that because it for some reason stopped front of Arcee.

Arcee holds her breath while the Firebird looked at her. BurnStar now came back to them to see what it want.

"What it wants, Burn?" Smokescreen asked.

"I don't know..." she said.

The Phoenix moves around Arcee like looking all of her either trying to find something from her. Then it stopped front of her again.

"It seems to sense something from Arcee," BurnStar said.

"(What exactly?)" Bumblebee asked.

"I don't know..." BurnStar said.

Then Phoenix moves it's head on Arcee like she is its child or something. Then BurnStar get more to them to see what it wanted. But after she got five-step near them, she already knew what was going on.

"Wow..." she said.

"What it wants?" Smokescreen asked.

"Well, first of all, it is 'she' and she somehow likes Arcee, because she can sense her... emotions."

"Come again?" Smokescreen asked.

"(What?)" Bumblebee asked.

"Well, it looks like Phoenix also can sense such emotions as love and passion. You know deep feelings. And since she...has a relationship with Optimus, it senses it."

"Say wha...?)" both Bumblebee and Smokescreen said. Hearing that made Arcee blush, but Phoenix seems to let sound that was probably giggling.

"Oh! And she senses that Arcee has met the Star Supreme, she is looking at," BurnStar said.

"Does this mean it likes to come with us?" Arcee asked.

"Let me ask," BurnStar said. She walks to the Phoenix and showed the fan and then point her Star symbol on her helm and then up. It was like asking 'Will come into this, so We can take you to Star Supreme'. The Phoenix seemed to think while before it seems to agree and turn into flames and move into the fan. Once it went there, the fan got Phoenix decoration on it.

"Okay, we got it. Can go now?" Smokescreen asked.

"Fine." Arcee said. "but if you spill this to anyone..."

"(Lips are sealed.)" Bumblebee beeped and made shipper move on his face.

"What he just said." both Smokescreen and BurnStar said.

"Good," Arcee said. "Because the last thing I want to hear is that you will blab about me and..."

"...And Optimus." heard a voice behind them.

They all look behind before their optics went wide. Behind them was The Predaking landing in a proper place and on it was no one else then FallStar.

The thunderstorm looked to be one of the big ones. Optimus and Ultra Magnus prepared for what was coming.

"Take cover!" Elena yelled.

"Should you too?" Ultra Magnus asked.

"I will handle it. Thunderlion must be there," Elena said. "I know what I'm doing. Go!"

Neither of them didn't want to left her alone, but they had no choice. By how it looks, the thunderstorm was too bad to even for them. They move to nearest rock for shelter, but Elena stood there like waiting something to come.

Then thunders keep roaring louder when the storm came closer and closer to them. Right, when it just above them and thunders strike near, They started to create shape into something big. Its figures came clear into a lion, with yellow eyes and its mane was like a bouquet of lightning. It walked slowly on Elena like a predator to its prey, but Elena just stood there facing the beast.

"We should help her," Ultra Magnus said, but Optimus stopped him.

"She knows what she is doing," he said.

Having full confidence in his daughter, Optimus watched how the beast came closer and closer to her. Then it stopped front of her and looked at her. Elena looked so the small front of the beast, but she didn't show anything sign of fear. She then took the umbrella and pointed at it.

"I'm what you had looked for," she said to the Thunderlion. "Your reach is over and it's time to go home. Will you accept me?"

By the roars of lighting was hard to say will it accept her, but then the lion went down and bowed its head to her. Right, then the storm calmed down. Optimus and Ultra Magnus came out from the shelter.

The lion keeps looking at Elena before it started to turn into lighting and moved to the umbrella. Elena collapsed down, after going that through. That truly proved that she looked so brave, but deep down she might have been scared a bit.

"Are you okay, my lady?" Ultra Magnus asked.

"You try to face the something like that, which could easily kill you just swinging the paw," Elena said.

"You did it well, my child," Optimus said.

"Thanks," Elena said. "But I try not to do it again."

"Optimus!"

"What is it, Ratchet?" Optimus answered to his com-link.

"We got a message from others in Italy. FallStar is there."

This shocked them all.

Soon the ground bridge opened near the volcano and Optimus, Ultra Magnus and Elena came through it, finding a terrifying scene. Bulkhead and Wheeljack had come before them but everyone was down beaten.

"What happened here..." Ultra Magnus said in shock. Even if he had seen many battlefields full of defeated man, but thinking this could cause one Star, was a bad sign.

Then Elena spots BurnStar. It looked like something was holding her down by force.

"BurnStar!" Elena yelled and started run to her.

"Elena, No Stay back!" BurnStar yelled. But right then, when Elena came close to her. From the rocks came out something.
It looked like FallStar, but by the rock shape, it has to be her copy. It came behind from Elena and pushed something on her head. Right, then Elena fell on the ground by the impact.

"Elena!" Optimus yelled and shot the fake rock figure, which destroyed into pieces.

"She has to be here somewhere," Ultra Magnus said.

"You got that right, commander." heard a familiar voice above them. Up there was FallStar standing next to the Predaking.

"FallStar, what you want?" Optimus asked.

"Oh? what I want, you ask? Well, isn't obvious. I want to become Star Supreme." she said. Elena looked up at her in shock. Is that what she has been after? To become Star Supreme?

"You know that place is now taken," Optimus said.

"Not yet," FallStar said. "I learned from my sister, that elements were sent here to find next Star Supreme and you know I control two of the main ones."

"What you then want?" Optimus asked once more.

"A fair fight. Winner takes all. Like you once said 'one shall rise, one shall fall'." FallStar said.

"The Stars aren't meant to fight," Ultra Magnus said.

"And look how many there are left of us!" FallStar said. "Ever since elder sister died you have treated us like scrap, I trusted you to be different than others Optimus, but no. You weren't there when they tried to punish me."

"I found out that later by your sisters." Optimus said. "the last thing I wanted was more mistakes."

"Well, there was. And it was by choosing you. Which is why I made deal with Megatron. I'll give him everything he needs to win this war and I'll become next Star Supreme and I'll make sure, that true golden age will come."

"You..." Elena said while tried to get up. "You... don't have... what it takes to become... the next Star Supreme..."

"And what makes you special?" FallStar asked. "By the way, you haven't noticed something 'missing in your head'?" that question shocked Elena, but also BurnStar.

"Sister, what had you done?"

"Nothing much. Just picking some information and I learned this much of you, Optimus," FallStar said. Right then Predaking raised up and it seemed to hold something...no, someone. It was Arcee.

"No!" Elena yelled.

"Arcee!" Optimus yelled and tried to get to her, but Predaking breath fire to stop him.

"It's all déjà vu, Optimus. Of course this time I'll let her live, but the rest will be up to Megatron to decide, what will happen to her," FallStar said. "You better keep com-link open for more information, Prime. For her shake," she said before she floats to Predaking, before they both left the scene, with Arcee.

"No..." Elena said while collapsed onto her knees. Then Optimus let out a huge roar of despair that was heard loud and clear.

TO BE CONTINUED...