Ratchet and Arcee drive through the corridors of the ship heading to the Omega Lock's control station. Arcee yells out as she comes to a halt and transforms, Ratchet stops and transforms as well. He goes over to her side to find out what's going on, "What happened? Are you alright?"

Arcee leans against the wall to hold herself up as pain shoots through her back, "I feel like I was shot in the back."

Ratchet is a bit confused for a moment, they weren't even shot at. But the confusion goes away when he comes to the conclusion that it must be from the Predacon, "Do you think you can keep moving?"

Arcee nods and pushes herself off the wall, she begins walking but after a few steps, she yells in pain again as she grasps at her chest and falls to her knees. Ratchet is at her side in an instant, "Arcee!"

"P-Predaking..."

Ratchet begins to panic, "Was he...?"

Arcee shakes her helm, "I don't believe he's dead, I can still feel the connection. It's faint but it's still there. I need a moment so go on ahead without me. You need to stop them from activating the Omega Lock."

"I'm not leaving you alone behind enemy lines." Ratchet says as he helps her off the floor.

Arcee tries to compose herself and ignore the pain, they need to focus on saving Earth, "I got it. I'll be fine." She says as she pushes away from him and transforms. Ratchet transforms as well and they drive off.

"Just take it easy." Ratchet tells her.

"I'm fine Ratchet."

Ratchet can't even imagine what she must be going through right now feeling the pain from her sparkmate who was almost offlined. He's witnessed many times what bots go through after losing a sparkmate, they're driven to insanity with so much pain, feeling like part of them is missing until they just give up and offline so they can be with their mate again. He knows Arcee is going through so much pain right now with almost losing her sparkmate and he sympathizes with her but right now they need to focus on the mission at hand. 

:: The Omega Lock's control station is located on the lower deck. :: Ratchet tells the rest of the team who is on the upper haul shooting at the Vehicons. :: Arcee and I are making our way there now. ::

:: Copy Ratchet, we will rendezvous at the objective. Bumblebee, you and Smokescreen go secure the Omega Lock. Ultra Magnus, you and the wreckers storm the bridge. Prevent the Decepticons from targeting the device if stealth team is delayed. ::

Arcee and Ratchet transform and run through the corridors and Arcee gets on her comm, :: Optimus, if we fail to secure the lock before it's ready to deploy. Do we destroy it? ::

:: I do not intend to squander a second chance to restore Cybertron. ::

The Autobots make it into the ship and Ultra Magnus and the Wreckers go one way while Bumblebee goes the other. Smokescreen stands there and watches as Megatron ascends to the top of the ship before he turns to follow Bumblebee down the corridor.

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Ratchet peeks around the corner at the guards standing in front of the door, he then looks at Arcee, "Go meet up with Bumblebee and Smokescreen to help them out, I'll handle this."

"Are you sure?"

"I know how to do a lot more than surgery and repair."

"Well, if you think you can handle it." Arcee runs back to meet up with Bumblebee and Smokescreen while Ratchet transforms his servos to his surgical blades and goes to attack the two drones. He opens the door and walks in to see Shockwave at the controls.

"Shut it down, Shockwave. I cannot allow you to harm Earth." Ratchet says as he walks over to him.

"The planet will not be harmed, only its indigenous life forms."

"Over my sparkless husk." Ratchet runs at him to attack him but Shockwave easily flips him over and throws him onto the ground. Shockwave attacks him but Ratchet defends himself until Shockwave picks him up and throws him across the room, causing him to slam into a wall and fall to the ground. Ratchet gets back up and cries out a battle cry as he runs at Shockwave again.

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Arcee runs through the corridors until she runs into Bumblebee who gives her a big hug, he's really happy to see her again. When he pulls back Arcee looks around for Smokescreen, "Where's Smokescreen?"

Bumblebee shrugs, "Don't know, he told me to go on without him and that there's something he needed to do then he ran off."

"He ran off and left you by yourself!? He should know better!" Arcee says feeling frustrated with the young mech, "We can't worry about him right now, we need to help Ratchet secure the Omega Lock."

They run through the corridors towards Ratchet's position, when they get close Arcee calls Ratchet on the comm, "Ratchet, we're approaching your position." As soon as she finishes speaking Starscream and a few drones come into view, blocking their way into the control room.

Starscream looks a bit shocked to see them, "What!?"

Arcee and Bumblebee stop running, "Scrap!"

"Attack!" Starscream yells at the drones and they start shooting making Arcee and Bumblebee duck behind the walls for cover as they return fire.

A bit later they could feel the ship shift over to the side which throws them off balance for a second, as Arcee regains her balance and pulls herself back into position she sees Smokescreen running towards them with the Star Saber in his servos, "Arcee, great to see you again. Got a special delivery. This way right?" Smokescreen says as he runs past her and Bumblebee.

Arcee shakes her helm as she laughs a bit, same old Smokescreen. She won't ever admit it out loud but she has missed him and his antics. Her and Bumblebee watch as Smokescreen activates the phase shifter on his arm and runs right through the Decepticons and the door. They both follow his lead and attack the Decepticons, the door opens and they go right through.

They take down some of the drones and continue to fight the last two drones and Starscream. Arcee looks over to see Smokescreen get shot by Shockwave's blaster and fly back, crashing into one of the holding tubes that's in the lab. She then looks over to the Star Saber laying on the floor and she notices the Decepticons running towards it. She runs after the drone and Starscream with Bumblebee following suit, she jumps onto the drone flipping him over and throwing him at Starscream knocking the mech to the floor.

Starscream looks up in time to see Arcee jumping into the air and coming towards him with her blade out. The two get into a fight for dominance, one trying to get the upper hand over the other. While Arcee is grasping Starscream's wrists to keep him from clawing her she glances over to see Bumblebee with the Star Saber heading to Optimus' position.

"I'm surprised you're still alive and able to fight, Arcee. Wouldn't think that you would still be kicking with your sparkmate gone. I say good riddance to the beast."

Arcee knees him in the abdomen before punching him, she is outraged, "Don't you talk about him like that! He's not a beast! He's a better mech than you could ever be!" She goes to slice him with her blade but he blocks it.

"A beast can never be better than me. You were supposed to be mine, I had a plan fully set out to get Megatron to give you to me. But that beast had to get in the way and have you given to him instead."

Arcee glares at him, "I would rather offline than sparkbond with you!"

Starscream can't stop the anger that's building up, "Fine!" He goes to shove his claws into her chest like he did with Cliffjumper but Arcee blocked his servo. They soon found themselves in another fight and struggle for dominance.

As they're fighting Arcee hears three blasts followed by a small pause and one more blast. She looks to see Bumblebee getting hit with the first three blasts while the last one strays off thanks to Optimus' interference. She feels Starscream's servo pushing on the side of her helm but she can't take her optics off Bumblebee as he falls into the cyber matter of the Omega Lock, the lights in his optics extinguishing. Her spark breaks at seeing her friend, the mech she sees as a little brother, becoming deceased.

She hears Optimus cry out in rage before attacking Megatron, hitting him with one punch after another. Optimus knocks Megatron down and gets ready to shoot him but Megatron finds his own Saber and picks it up, turns whipping the Saber around which sends Optimus flying back and off the side of the ship. Megatron walks over to find Optimus hanging there and he raises his Saber to kill him.

"Megatron!"

A voice shouts out his name and he turns to see who called him only to be impaled by a sword through his sternum. He looks at Bumblebee who is glaring at him with so much anger and hate, the blaster shots in his sternum healing over and leaving his sternum looking good as new, "You took my voice... You will never rob anyone of anything ever again." Bumblebee tells him with the meanest glare on his face.

Megatron tries to lift his Saber to strike the scout but he's too weak and the Saber slips out of his servo and falls off the ship. He falls to one knee as he grasps at the sword, his systems are crashing rapidly as his spark begins to fade. All the Autobots and Decepticons watch as his optics begin to flicker, the Decepticons are in disbelief that their master has been taken down.

Starscream falls to his knees, "Lord Megatron, no!"

Megatron's systems completely fail and the light in his optics cut out as his spark extinguishes. He slides off the sword as he falls back, falling off the ship and towards Earth. Optimus watches as the mech he once considered his brother, but turned into an enemy, offlines and falls down to Earth, his spark feeling heavy at the loss. But he's happy the war is finally over and Bumblebee is alive.