Decepticon war ship
Holding cell 332
***Authors Pov.

"Get in there!" A veiocon yelled and threw a ,what appeared to be, 19 eon old femme. The femme toppled to the ground but stood back up and ran to the already closed door. She banged on it and tried the handle.Locked, there were 2 guards posted out side, incase she tried to escape.

She put her back up against the door and slid down it sitting on the floor. Then leaned her helm against the door and pulled her knees close to her chest plates. 'Why had this happened to me?' She wondered. 'Why don't they let me go?' That very question would be answered sooner than she thought.

Atobot base
Main room
***Authors Pov.

Ratchet, Bumblebee, Arcee, and Optimus Prime all stood in the main room doing separate activities. Ratchet being more grumpy than ever ,do to the fact that Miko spent the entire previous night jamming on a guitar preventing him from recharge, was searching the data base. Optimus was at his computer decoding the archives maching the codes to get coordinates to another relic. And Arcee and Bumblebee were watching Raf and Jack play a sports car video game while cheering on their human partner.

"Come on Jack your letting him win!" Arcee said seeing the 2nd player red car falling behind. "Beeeep bloop beep!" 'We're gonna win!' Bumblebee buzzed with excitement. "I'm trying he's played longer than I have!" Jack said leaning forward trying to make the car drive faster by gliding on the edges, and pushing Raf's car of the road. "Haha! I know every way to win this game Jack. Ain't no way to beat me!" Raf said with confidence.

"Will you four keep it down over there!?" Ratchet said with a mad expression on his faceplate. "I am trying to get some work done!" He looked back at his work grumbling. Optimus turned around and smiled sadly at his team mates them went back to decoding, smile dropping from his faceplate. However Optimus did not feel in a smiling mood, he felt even more distant from anyone.
Optimus didn't know the cause of this but felt that it may have been from not having another Prime around for some time. He had read, while he was studying under Alfa Trion as Orion Pax, that if a Prime did not have contact with another Prime then he/she would become distant from the world. Which he had been for the past few weeks or at least he had started to notice his distances from the group a few weeks ago.

At night when everyone is in their berths
Approximately 9:00 p.m.
*** Author's Pov.

-Ratchet?- Optimus said through a private comm link. -Yes Optimus I am here. What do you need?- The tired medic answered. -Could you meet me in the med bay please?- Optimus asked with a bit of sadness in his voice. -Is something wrong Optimus?- Ratchet asked wordily. -Maybe, I am not quite certain.- Optimus said and went to the med bay and waited for Ratchet.

"Can you recharge?" Ratchet asked as he walked in and went over to his computer to set up the medical equipment incase needed. "No, every time I go to lay down my chest feels like it has a tight bubble of air or built up pressure." Optimus answered sitting down on the medical berth, holding his helm in one servo to try and clear the dizziness. "I'm going to have to run a diagnostic test on you to find out what's going on." Ratchet said. "Okay." Optimus agreed and laid down on the berth that he had been sitting on. Ratchet ran the scanner over him a few times it nothing seemed to be wrong. Ratchet took the scan and hooked a wire to an output in his arm. All information was transported to the computer and was enlarged enough so that he could properly see what was going on.

Ratchet ran over all the tests and when he got to the chest part he saw something. "Optimus, come here." He said a glint of worry in he voice. "What is it Ratchet?" Optimus asked. "Do you see this dark figure behind you spark?" Optimus nodded, "That is the matrix. Normally it would be a bright blueish green, but it is a dim grey." Ratchet explained, Optimus took thought into this and then knew it was because there wasn't another Prime. "Do you know what it could be Optimus?" Ratchet asked him.

Optimus just stared at the picture for a minute before breaking the silence between them. "I read about this when I was studying under Alfa Trion, if a Prime does not have another matrix around for a period of time then the matrix will eventually give out and I won't be a Prime anymore. I would still have the build and the memories, however my personality would change and some of the prime traits that I have gained will be lost." Optimus explained. "So that means," Ratchet began. "I will lose the matrix and lose the title of Prime." Optimus finished.

Decepticon war ship
Holding cell 332
***Authors Pov.

The femme sat in the dark corner of the small room trying to hide herself from the decepticons. She couldn't remember anything of there being a war, or a Atobot side neither Decepticon side. The last thing she remembered was her with BreakWing Prime in the Prime lounge. But why was she there? Maybe because she was sent to the Elite guard for some unknown reason and called up to the Prime Lounge. But she somehow knew it was important than that. "Femme get over here!" A dark voice rang through the dark room. He grabbed her arm and pulled her into the light. Then put her in stasis cuffs

He took her to a room with a medical berth, a desk with medical equipment on it, another desk with a mech in front if it, and finally a silver mech facing her. She was thrown to ground landing on her knees in front of a very tall dark mech. Megatron. She looked up at him with very hurt and scared optics, her faceplate stained with energon tears. He stared back not a even a hint of mercy in blood red optics. "What is your name femme?" He asked his voice filled with danger. "Ro-Rocellen." She stuttered backing away a bit standing up.

He looked up and down at her weak form. "Where am I?" She asked. Megatron chuckled at her cluelessness. "Your in the Nemesis." He said darkly. She had a puzzled look on her face. "I don't know anything of the war or Decepticons or Atobots." She said looking Megatron in the optics. "Well you see you are on the decepticon war ship, the Nemesis, and you are on the Atobots side," he said pointing to the symbol in the middle of her chest plates. She looked down at it and touched it lightly with her servo.

FLASHBACK

"Rocellen Prime you have dedicated you life to be on the Atobots side correct?" A medic femme said with a burner in her servo that had the Atobot symbol on it. "Correct." Rocellen said in a stronger and more mature voice than she had ever heard herself speak in before. The femme nodded "This will hurt a bit, are you ready?" The femme asked. "Arcee I will be fine, you may proceed." Rocellen said with a gentle smile on her faceplate.

END OF FLASHBACK

"And now you can obviously tell that you are on the opposing team. And that is the reason you are treated this way Rocellen." Megatron said. "KnockOut! Set up the cortical physic patch so we can, re-load our guests memory." Megatron snapped at KnockOut. "What's a cortical physic patch?" Rocellen asked in a scared tone of voice. Three veiocons grabbed her from behind and forced her onto the berth and restrained her peds then, unhooking the stasis cuffs, her servos. She struggled to get out of the restraints but failed and within a split second she was hooked up to the cortical physic patch and she was taken back into her own mind and memories. And a blood cutting scream pierced through the air.