Bumblebee's P.O.V.

"Well hello there scout." The voice says darkly.

<Megatron.> I beep angrily.

"Do tell me, why is a tiny scout like you here in my warship?" Megatron asks.

I didn't get time to reply, when a felt two tentacles wrapping around my arms from behind. I look to see, Soundwave. Frag I'm in serious trouble,

"Soundwave, please escort our prisoner to the cells." Megatron says.

Soundwave nods, and with a third tentacle electrocutes me, and everything went black.

No P.O.V. (AUTOBOT BASE)

The base was quiet, and the kids were at school. Arcee was in her berthroom refusing to talk to any bot. Bulkhead was on patrol, he insisted even though Optimus denied. Ratchet was just working on some of his side projects, and Optimus, well he was nervous and worried for his team, his family. 

Optimus P.O.V.

I was worried, for every bot on my team. It was all so sudden, after the last recordings Bumblebee sent. Arcee was more distant, she never came out of her berthroom unless it was for energon, but when she did. She avoids eye contact with everyone, Bulkhead is on patrol 24/7. Ratchet was more frustrated than usual. And while I was worried about everyone, I was mostly worried about Bumblebee. I was his foster sire, and if he dies. Then I would've broken my promise to his actual father, Warstrike. But now, all I can do is hope, and have faith that Bumblebee will prevail.

Bulkhead's P.O.V.

I was on patrol again. Just making sure we're safe, when no humans were around I turned off my life signal and transformed.

I look up to see, the Nemesis. I frowned at the sight, Bumblebee was right here, but so far away.

I transform and head back to base, before Ratchet got angry, him and I have been arguing way too much recently. But with the possible threat of Arcee going offline, we had to do what we had to do.

When I got to base, I was headed straight towards my berthroom, but a voice stopped me, one I haven't heard in a while

"Bulkhead." the voice says.

I turn around, and I saw a tip of a pink head crest.

"Arcee, thought you don't talk to any bot now." I frowned. 

She frowns and made optic contact with me. 

"Look, I'm gonna sneak aboard the warship, and I need you to cover for me." She says.

"Arcee, absolutely NOT!! Think about it, would Bumblebee agree with this? He'd probably be disappointed. Why do you want to do this anyways?" I ask angrily.

"It's because we have all the information we need, and Bumblebee needs to be back! I don't think we'll still be a team without him. And if he were here, then I wouldn't need to worry if he's okay!" She screams.

"Don't you think we all worry about him right now? Why do you worry about him WAY too much Arcee?! I see it all the time, when he's out scouting, or even in a simple energon mine!" I yell back.

"It's because I LIKE him okay?" She yells hastily.

"And if he's gone, that means I've failed another bot I truly care for, it means then I've failed another partner. He was always there for me, when Tailgate died, when Cliffjumper died. I just want to be there for him once, is that too much to ask?" She cries

"No, Arcee it isn't too much to ask. But, you've been there for him too. In ways you haven't even realized yet. I don't mind that you like him. But don't die, okay?" I say much more softly.

"Alright, fine. But I think we have to play some catch up." Arcee smirks.

"Gladly." I reply as we headed into Arcee's berthroom, which was much more neater than mine.

(BUMBLEBEE'S P.O.V.)

When I slowly regained consciousness, I groaned. I tried to move my servos, only to figure out that they've been chained to the wall, and so were my pedes. The cell bars deactivated, and a glitch named Starscream came in.

"So, you're finally awake." Starscream says.

<What do you want?" I beep angrily.

"Simple." He says looking at the wall, then he turned to me and said. "How much do you know about all of this?" He asks.

<What are you talking about. I don't know what 'all this' even is.> I say.

"Nice try." He chuckles, then with his long sharp claws stabbed my side until the ground had a pool of energon. Only then he slowly took his claws out.

"You better get used to this. Because it won't be just me." Starscream says sinisterly.

When he leaves, I groan. And I thought to myself,

"When will this end?"

(TIME SKIP) TWO WEEKS/NEMESIS

I heard a groundbridge, and thought it just might be the vehicons coming back from getting energon. My optics were dim from the loss of energon, and I was surprised that I hadn't offlined.

First it was Starscream, then it was Knockout, Soundwave, Airachnid, Breakdown, and then, Megatron.

I was in pain and couldn't stand to see a new decepticon. But Megatron came in, with a femme.

Frag, it was her. The one to kill Arcee, the one who likes Megatron, the one who plotted the deaths of Tailgate, and Cliffjumper.

"Ahh, the scout. It's time for you to meet, my sparkmate. Nightbird. She smiles sinisterly behind her mask, and obviously had something planned.

"Now, Nightbird do tell me. Why keep your identity a secret with that cloak you wore?" Megatron asks

"Just in case some bot were listening. And that seemed to happen with this pathetic scout." She spat.

"Now then, Nightbird. What shall happen now?" Megatron asks.

"We need, Arcee. Now it doesn't matter who they're killed in front of. But it has to happen soon, the plans have changed. We need this ritual to work, and we do it after we have both of them. Or it's too late. But, just to tell you, the femme must be killed first." Nightbird says.

<No.> I beep quietly.

Nightbird turns to look at me.

"What did you say?" She asks angrily.

<I said, 'NO'. You won't harm Arcee while I'm still functioning!> I yell.

"Brave, no wonder you lost your voice." She smirks.

Before I could reply, I felt a sharp pain in my stomach area. I shakily look down to see, a sword had stabbed me. Energon was slowly forming a pool on the ground.

<No.> I beep weakly, next thing I see. The sword coming back out, energon covering almost all of it. The two sparkmates grinned evilly before turning around, and leaving.

That was the last thing I saw before everything had went black, again.

(AUTOBOT BASE)  NO P.O.V.

"Optimus! I detected an energon signal, we should go before the decepticons invade it." Ratchet says while activating the groundbridge.

"Thank you once again old friend. Autobots, Transform and ROLL OUT!!" Optimus commands.

Soon Optimus, Arcee, and Bulkhead transform and drive through the groundbridge.

(ENERGON MINE) NO P.O.V.

When the autobots transformed back into their bot forms, they transformed their servos into blasters in case any decepticon miners were here.

"Area looks clear Prime." Arcee says.

"Alright, looks like we hit the bucket load-" Bulkhead was cut-off by another groundbridge activating.

"The Autobots. How did I know you'd be here." A femme says.

Optimus's optics went wide at the sight of the femme.

"Nightbird." Prime says bitterly.

"Orion, or should I say Optimus. Got to say where is your scout? He's really missing out." Nightbird replies evilly.

"What do you want Nightbird?" Optimus asks, his cannon still aimed at the femme.

"Just the femme." She replies.

"And if we refuse?" Optimus asks.

"Simple, then your precious scout will die. And last time I saw his condition. Wasn't too good." Nightbird says.

Before Optimus could reply, Arcee lunges at the other femme, anger and rage pulsing through her veins, and unsheathes her arm blades. Then with her arm blades out she began slashing at the femme. Nightbird easily dodges, and with her blaster, blasts Arcee in the stomach. Arcee falls to the ground, leaking energon, and not moving. Nightbird then transforms her blaster back into her servo, and takes out her sword, and placed the tip at Arcee's neck. 

When Arcee opened her optics, she clasped her servo across her wound, and looked weakly at Nightbird.

Bulkhead was charging up his blaster, and prepared to shoot at the decepticon.

"Well, I have to say, this has been fun." Was all the femme said before she grabbed Arcee by the ped, and dragged her into the groundbridge. Before she went in, she blasted at the energon in the mine, and ran in through the bridge. With Arcee in hand.

When the smoke cleared out, the remaining two autobots figured out, it was a grenade sent to distract them, Optimus looked around, and found a strange artifact, he picked it up and held it close to him.

Bulkhead looked to be worried, and while it was quiet, a tiny sound was heard.

"No, not Arcee." Bulkhead whispers softly.

(NEMESIS) Arcee's P.O.V.

I groaned, as I was being dragged on the ground, my optics half open. Next thing I know, I'm being thrown in a cell. I looked over my wound, I was heavily damaged, but in the cell across from me I saw, Bumblebee. Chain restraints which seemed to be holding him up before were cut down, and energon pooled around him, I started to go into stasis, die to the loss of energon.

(TIMESKIP) Two Hours. Arcee's P.O.V.

When I woke up, I was in cuffs, and next to me was Bumblebee, who was also awake.

<Arcee.> He says softly.

"Bee," I reply.

<If this is the last time we're together, then I need to tell you that-> I cut him off from his sentence.

"I know, me too." I smile, and he smiles behind his mouthplate.

"Now," Nightbird starts to say.

"Is time for both of you to join both Cliffjumper, and Tailgate. When you die."