(No I did not make the pic. l'm not that talented. XD

I was inspired to write this one-shot when I saw the picture above on DeviantArt. The art credit and story idea goes to the artist (FangirlDayandNight ); I just wrote this.

This has Megacron/Unitron/Galvatron/Megatron/whatever you want to call him it in it (I'm calling him Megatron in this one-shot) and Megsy still continues to "inflict oppression" and has returned to earth. And the 'bots haven't acquired a GroundBridge yet.

Some dialogue I used was used in her small background of her book, and I just incorporated it into here. So yeah. Enjoy.)

"Strongarm, Sideswipe, can I trust you both to go out on reconnaissance together without going at each others' neck cables?" Bumblebee sighed, glancing at the two.

"Yes, sir," Strongarm replied, nodding her helm before transforming.

"No promises," Sideswipe muttered, rolling his optics. Bumblebee frowned slightly, but knew it was the best answer he would receive from the mech.

Strongarm sped off, and Sideswipe transformed and zoomed after her. Bumblebee watched them go, still frowning to himself as his thought about something else.

Maybe I should follow them. It's an unknown signal that didn't come from the Alchemore, maybe they could need backup and it'd be too late if I waited-

Bumblebee shook his helm, before transforming and keeping a far (but not too far) distance behind the blue and red vehicles. He knew he shouldn't be so protective like this, they knew they could protect themselves, but...you never knew.

Sideswipe and Strongarm didn't seem to be bickering or trying to run each other off the road, which Bumblebee was pleased with, and they seemed to be "well behaved" for most of the trip, which was about an hour or two (or, okay, four), until they turned onto a dirt road on a mountain.

When Bumblebee turned, he almost fell off a cliff face that had unexpectedly been there into the water below, the waves ready to swallow him whole. He swerved at the last second, and nearly crashed into a nearby tree leading to a wooded area. Miraculously Sideswipe and Strongarm hadn't noticed as he swerved yet again, getting his "footing" back.

Before he accelerated and continued driving, he noticed a print on the ground, one you would easily miss driving by if you hadn't been looking. Transforming, he knelt down next to it. The print was obviously cybertronian, but it looked familiar to him somehow. Way too familiar.

Letting his old scouting instincts take over, he assessed where the print was headed and headed in that same direction, trying to stay hidden. He continued finding prints, and reached for his blaster as he got closer, soon holding it in his servo, walking swiftly and silently, before he no longer saw tracks, he saw pedes.

His optics widened, now realizing why the tracks had seemed so similar. His helm shot up, his light blue optics meeting with blood red ones, and they did not, in any way, look friendly.

"Megatron?" Bumblebee asked, his voice barely above a whisper. The large grey mech standing in front of him only smirked.

"Why are you here?" Bumblebee asked, a little more confident as he raised his blaster.

"To get my revenge," Megatron replied, unsheathing his blade.

"Whatever happened to 'I now know the true meaning of oppression, and I've lost my taste for inflicting it'?"

"You mean you believed that?" Megatron laughed, sending shivers down the former scout's "spine". When he heard that laugh before , Megatron had just ripped out his voice box, and he also heard it when Megatron had also nearly killed Rafael with dark energon. The yellow mech was frozen for a while, the sound bringing back those terrible memories.

Seeing as Bumblebee was distracted, Megatron lunged, getting a good stab in his side. The pain only intensified Bumblebee's flashbacks as he staggered back a little, grunting softly. He seemed to be moving underwater; his reaction time was quite slow as he was trying to fight back. Megatron swung at Bee again, the sword scratching his neck cables a little as Bumblebee shot his blaster repeatedly, but was soon disarmed with a flick of Megatron's servo, scaring him even more. Megatron smiled again, knowing he had the higher advantage, and started attacking him, revenge as his motivator.

*

"Bee's gone, right?" Sideswipe asked Strongarm, adjusting one of his side mirrors to look behind him.

"I believe so," Strongarm replied. "Hopefully the lieutenant decided we can handle this ourselves and returned to base."

Sideswipe only grunted incoherently in reply, focused on the signal again, which kept moving around. Either that or Fixit's scanners were going nuts.

Strongarm abruptly braked next to him, before making a U-turn and speeding off. Sideswipe figured it was best to not question it and only followed after her, soon realizing that the signal had moved again and Strongarm had been heading towards it.

The femme ahead of his soon turned into a wooded area with trees, and transformed, blaster out and at the ready.

"Strongarm-"

"Shush!" she interrupted, obviously focused on something.

"Strongarm, what-"

"Shh!"

Sideswipe was silent, before he heard whatever Strongarm had been trying to hear. Sounds of fighting.

The two exchanged glances with each other, silently debating on what to do, before nodding, and Sideswipe unsheathed his decepticon hunter's sword as the two slowly moved deeper into the woods, the sounds of fighting getting louder.

Before the two 'bots could react, something was thrown into a few trees next to them with a loud crack as the trees snapped and started tiling dangerously to one side. Strongarm couldn't help but yelp a little in surprise, especially when she saw who had been thrown.

"Lieutenant? What-wh-are you alright?" she asked worriedly when she caught sight of the wounds Bumblebee had. Bee didn't reply; he just slowly tried to get up, which he found very painful with his wounds.

"Bee, who did this?" Sideswipe asked as he walked over to help, concern in his optics. Bumblebee rejected his help as he weakly lifted his helm in their general direction, quickly wiping energon off his faceplate.

"You two need to get out of here. Now. Get back to the base," he commanded, giving up on his effort to stand up.

"Lieutenant-"

"You two would be wise to follow his order," Megatron sneered, becoming visible after being behind a few trees, making the others' optics widen at the sight of the former Decepticon warlord, who was walking toward them.

"No. It's an order I will ignore," Strongarm replied, her optics narrowing.

"Strongarm-"

Bee was interrupted when Sideswipe ran towards the warlord, aiming for a stab anywhere. Strongarm started shooting, being careful of Sideswipe. Megatron found it somewhat easy to deflect the two's efforts, throwing them both into trees before grabbing a hold of Bumblebee's neck cables, which caused a new set of memories of Tyger Pax to play in the former scout's processor.

"You made me offline," Megatron growled, slamming the yellow mech to a nearby tree.

"Since I've had a new lease on life, It's my turn to return the favor."

With that, he clawed at Bumblebee's chassis, the marks deep enough to reveal a blue spark, which pulsed weakly, having been nicked by one of Megatron's digits. Megatron unsheathed his blade.

"No!" Sideswipe cried, hastily getting up and running toward Megatron, his decepticon hunter changing to a sword. Megatron caught the blade and thrust the weapon aside, aiming his own blade at him.

"One move, and your Lieutenant is scrap," he growled, looking to Strongarm at the word "lieutenant".

Strongarm didn't dare move from her place at the tree she was thrown into.

Bumblebee felt completely helpless, feeling like he couldn't move, speak, or even vent. The area was silent for a few seconds, but it felt like minutes.

"Good," Megatron finally said, breaking the silence before walking out of the woods, still holding Bumblebee, and walking to the very cliff edge Bumblebee had nearly gone over earlier. Sideswipe and Strongarm exchanged a glance, knowing and fearing what would happen next. They still didn't dare to move, even though they knew Megatron wanted to offline Bumblebee anyway.

"Long. Live. Megatron," the warlord hissed in the former scout's audio receptor before throwing him over the edge. He watched him fall, a wide grin on his faceplate before transforming and flying off once Bumblebee disappeared under the waves and kept him there. The two other Cybertronians ran to the edge, noticing the bright blue liquid in the water that was energon, though it was hard to tell how much Bee lost already in the water, the colors looked similar.

"I can't see him," Sideswipe muttered, his optics obviously adjusting to different settings.

"I'm going after him," Strongarm announced, stepping back a few steps in preparation to jump.

"What? We need to-"

"If we don't do anything now, he will die," she hissed.

"I know, okay? Just...let's plan this a little better than you jumping off a cliff-"

"There's no time!"

Meanwhile, Bumblebee continued to sink, daylight getting farther and farther away as he slowly was sucked into the darkness. His optics were starting to flicker and dim, and he felt like he was falling into the abyss, a never-ending pit.

Optimus. Please...what do I do?

He glanced up at the small dot of whiteish-blue that was the sun. It felt hundreds of clicks away.

Please...

Something suddenly jumped into the water, he could tell that much. He didn't know what or who it was, his vision became blurry.

Please...

His vision went black, his optics no longer able to stay online.

~~~

I actually almost killed Bee, tbh. But then I rewrote it. This is what happens when I get into this stuff. XD

And this entire idea of the one-shot was the artist's, I just wrote what I got out of it. So yeah.

And I don't know how to spell Alchemore. :P

Wow, these past few chapters of this book have been sorta depressing. Megsy and his dark energon strike again!

We need more chappys of Miko getting paint all over Bee and OP.

I already have ideas for the next chapter, and it's a more light-hearted one than this or the previous two chappys.

I think.

I hope. XD

Hope you enjoyed this anyway. :3

Sorry if it's crappy, though. Life. :P

*disappears*